green

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/ˈɡɹiːn/

adjective · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Having the color of grass or leaves.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Concerned with protecting the environment.

Examples

  • The cows were moving very slowly through the long green grass.

  • The suspect has dark hair and green eyes.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɡɹin/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

  2. A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

More examples

In context

  • The hill is always green.

  • Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?

  • The former flag of Libya is fully green.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Doublet of Gruen. See also 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, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn. The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography.