Green
[griːn] or [ɡrin]
Definition
(noun.) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass.
(noun.) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; 'the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker'.
(noun.) a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
(noun.) an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.
(noun.) United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952).
(verb.) turn or become green; 'The trees are greening'.
(adj.) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; 'a green tree'; 'green fields'; 'green paint' .
(adj.) not fully developed or mature; not ripe; 'unripe fruit'; 'fried green tomatoes'; 'green wood' .
(adj.) looking pale and unhealthy; 'you're looking green'; 'green around the gills' .
(adj.) concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party .
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Definition
(superl.) Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
(superl.) Having a sickly color; wan.
(superl.) Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
(superl.) Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
(superl.) Not roasted; half raw.
(superl.) Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
(superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
(n.) The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
(n.) A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
(n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
(n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.
(v. t.) To make green.
(v. i.) To become or grow green.
Typist: Robbie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Verdant.[2]. Flourishing, blooming, fresh, undecayed.[3]. New, recent.[4]. Unripe, not fully grown, immature.[5]. Inexperienced, unskilful, inexpert, ignorant, raw.[6]. Unseasoned, not dry.
n. [1]. Blue and yellow.[2]. Lawn, grass-plot, grassy plain.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a beautiful letter, highly scented, on a pink paper, and with a light green seal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- White pearls include pure white and white slightly tinted with pink, blue, green or yellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Mr. Raggles then retired and personally undertook the superintendence of the small shop and the greens. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I never saw her, except upon a baggage-waggon, when she wasn't washing greens! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Wait till the greens is off her mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These colors were bright, and were generally yellows, blues, and grays, although sometimes he used greens, violets, and browns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We had loin of pork for dinner, and greens grown on the estate; and I nodded at the Aged with a good intention whenever I failed to do it drowsily. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In Fig. 282 is given a section and plan view of the Greener mechanism, which was patented July 6, 1880, No. 229,604, and was one of the first guns of this kind put on the market. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She glided quickly under the green hedges and across the greener leas. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- BREADALBY Breadalby was a Georgian house with Corinthian pillars, standing among the softer, greener hills of Derbyshire, not far from Cromford. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Greener and Staite revived this idea in a patent in 1845. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why, ma'am, of all the young fellows I've seen out of the line, I think this fellow's the greenest. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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