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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) enPR: gr?n, IPA^(key): /??i?n/
• (US, Canada) enPR: gr?n, IPA^(key): /??in/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English grene, from Old English gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”). More at grow.

Adjective

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

1. Having green as its color.

   Synonyms: verdant, vert
2. (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. (figuratively) Inexperienced.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced

   • 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)

     He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.

5. (figuratively, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible

6. (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.

7. (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.

   Synonym: eco-friendly
8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
9. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.

   Synonyms: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked

10. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

      We say the meat is green when half roasted.

11. (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
    • 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)

      Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]

    • 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)

      […] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.

12. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.

13. (wine) High or too high in acidity.

    Synonym: tart

14. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new

    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

      as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation

15. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
16. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
17. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.

Antonyms

• (having green as its colour): nongreen, ungreen
• (having green as its colour charge): antigreen
• (of bacon: unprocessed): processed, smoked, spiced
• (of wine: high in acidity): cloy, sweet
• (of certain fruits: ready to be eaten): ripe

Derived terms

Pages starting with “green”.

Related terms

Translations

See green/translations § Adjective.

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English grene, from the adjective (see above).

Noun

green (plural greens)

1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

   Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger

   Hyponyms: blue green, red green
3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.

   Synonym: bowling green

5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
6. (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
10. A green light used as a signal.
    • 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)

      To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.

11. (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

12. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
13. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See green/translations § Noun.

Etymology 3

From Middle English grenen, from Old English gr?nian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?nij?n?, *gr?nijan? (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.

Verb

green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)

1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.

   • Great spring before greened all the year.
2. To become or grow green in colour.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Ancient Sage

     Her dust is greening in your leaf

   • 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, "Flowers in Winter"

     by greening slope and singing flood

3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
   • 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)

     The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.

4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Synonyms

• (make (something) green): engreen

Derived terms

Translations

See green/translations § Verb.

See also

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen

Czech

Etymology

From English green.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ri?n]

Noun

green m

1. (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)

Usage notes

Although the official term for the green is jamkovišt?, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.

Declension

References

Danish

Etymology

From English green.

Noun

green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)

1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Further reading

• “green” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse gr?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?n/
• Hyphenation: green
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

green m (plural grenen)

1. (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris

   Synonym: grove den

Derived terms

• grenen
• grenenhout

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English green.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?n/
• Hyphenation: green
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

green m (plural greens)

1. (golf) green, putting green

German Low German

Alternative forms

• gren
• (in some other dialects) gröön (grön)
• (in some other dialects) gräun

Adjective

green

1. (Low Prussian) green

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gre, gree

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??re??n/

Verb

green (Late Middle English)

1. To come to an understanding or agreement.
2. (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: gree (obsolete)
• Scots: gree

References

• “gr??en, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?n/

Adjective

green

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)

1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)

1. (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

green c

1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)

Declension

Anagrams

• gener, genre, neger

Catalan

Etymology

Possibly from a reconstructed *bledino-, a derivation of Proto-Celtic *bledyos (“wolf”). Among the many common names in the languages of Europe for Verbascum thapsus (the common mullein), whose long leaves were historically used to make wicks, are the equivalents of “wolf's tail” or “fox's tail”. (For example, Welsh cynffon llwynog (“fox's tail”), dialectal Catalan cua de guilla (“fox's tail”).)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ble/

Noun

ble m (plural blens)

1. wick

   Synonym: metxa

Derived terms

• blenera

Further reading

• “ble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ble” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse blæja (“sheet, blanket”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål bleie, Swedish blöja

Noun

ble c (singular definite bleen, plural indefinite bleer)

1. diaper, nappy; An absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent.

Inflection

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bleu (“blue”).

Adjective

ble

1. blue

Lakota

Etymology

Cognate with Dakota bdé

Noun

ble

1. lake

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• blo

Noun

ble ? (plural [please provide])

1. blue

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ble

1. past tense of bli

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bleðja.

Verb

ble (present tense bler, past tense bledde, past participle bledd, present participle bleande, imperative ble)

1. (transitive, intransitive) (while reading) to turn the page, to sift through a book, pamphlet or other

   Synonym: bla

2. (transitive) to sort

Related terms

• blad n

Etymology 2

Verb

ble (present tense bler, past tense blei, supine blitt)

1. (Stavanger) Eye dialect spelling of bli.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (South Wales, colloquial) le
• (North Wales, colloquial) lle
• (literary) pa le

Etymology

Contraction of ba le from pa le (“which place”), mutated so as to show adverbial usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?/

Adverb

ble

1. where

Mutation

Mutation of ble is unusual in that its mutated forms derive from the original pa le, resulting in ble (soft), mhle (soft) and phle (aspirate). Usage of mhle and phle is limited, if at all found in the case of the latter, with users preferring an unmutable ble in all contexts.