Green
proper noun
- family name
noun
- part of a golf course near the hole
- surface upon which bowls is played
- grassy plain
- color; additive primary color; visible between blue and yellow
adjective
- color
- eco-friendly
- being inexperienced
- being full of vegetation
verb
- become more green
- become more ecologically friendly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːn/ / /ˈɡɹiːn/ / [ˈɡɹʷɪi̯n] / /ˈɡɹin/
adj
Etymology: English surname, a topographic name for someone who either lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour. This name is also translated from other surnames, such as German Grün and Gruen, Dutch Groen, Irish Ó hUainí (from uaine, see Honan), etc. The Irish surname was also erroneously translated from Ó Fathaidh, Ó Fathaigh, from faithche (“lawn”).
- Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
intj
Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; green being the one that allows vehicles to move on.
- Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.
name
Etymology: English surname, a topographic name for someone who either lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour. This name is also translated from other surnames, such as German Grün and Gruen, Dutch Groen, Irish Ó hUainí (from uaine, see Honan), etc. The Irish surname was also erroneously translated from Ó Fathaidh, Ó Fathaigh, from faithche (“lawn”).
- A common English surname from Middle English.
“When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.”
- A number of places in the United States:
- A number of places in the United States:
- A number of places in the United States:
- A number of places in the United States:
- A number of places in the United States:
- A place in Wales:
- A place in Wales:
- A place in Wales:
- Ellipsis of Green College, Oxford.
noun
Etymology: English surname, a topographic name for someone who either lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour. This name is also translated from other surnames, such as German Grün and Gruen, Dutch Groen, Irish Ó hUainí (from uaine, see Honan), etc. The Irish surname was also erroneously translated from Ó Fathaidh, Ó Fathaigh, from faithche (“lawn”).
- A member of a Green Party or green party.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.
- To make or turn (something) green or greener.
“Great spring before greened all the year.”
“Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.”
- To become or grow green in color.
“O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom.”
“by greening slope and singing flood”
- To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
“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.”
- To become environmentally aware.
- To make (something) environmentally friendly.
“"The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."”