English Online Dictionary. What means green? What does green mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːn/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹin/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Etymology 1
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.
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, Icelandic grænn.
The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is from a calque of Spanish verde.
Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
- Synonyms: verdant, vert; see also Thesaurus:greenish
- Antonyms: nongreen, ungreen
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- Antonym: ripe
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- Synonym: envious
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- Synonyms: eco-friendly; see also Thesaurus:environmentally friendly
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
- Synonyms: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
- Antonyms: processed, smoked, spiced
- (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Synonym: tart
- Antonyms: cloy, sweet
- (Philippines, informal) Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- Antonym: antigreen
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
- Coordinate term: gold
- (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
- Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.
Derived terms
English terms starting with “green”
Descendants
- Bislama: grin
- → Marshallese: kūriin
- Tok Pisin: grin
Translations
References
Noun
green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly roughly 495–570 nm.
- Synonyms: emerald, lime; see also Thesaurus:green
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
- Hyponyms: blue green, red green
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Synonym: bowling green
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- A green light used as a signal.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (theater, informal) Short for green room.
Derived terms
- Nouns
- Proper nouns
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 2
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.
Verb
green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- To become or grow green in color.
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
- (make (something) green): engreen
Derived terms
- greenable
- greening
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Anagrams
- Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen
Czech
Etymology
Derived from English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡriːn]
Noun
green m inan
- (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 jamkoviště, 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
Further reading
- “green”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
Danish
Etymology
From English green.
Noun
green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)
- (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 grǫn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣreːn/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -eːn
Noun
green m (plural grenen)
- (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
- Synonym: grove den
Derived terms
- grenen
- grenenhout
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
green m (plural greens)
- (golf) green, putting green
Derived terms
- greenkeeper
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁin/
Noun
green m (plural greens)
- (golf) green
German Low German
Alternative forms
- gren
- (in some other dialects) gröön (grön)
- (in some other dialects) greun, gräun
Etymology
From Middle Low German grōne, from Old Saxon grōni.
Adjective
green
- (Low Prussian) green
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gre, gree
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡreːən/
Verb
green (Late Middle English)
- To come to an understanding or agreement.
- (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: gree (obsolete)
- Scots: gree
References
- “grẹ̄en, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.
Pronunciation
- (Sylt) IPA(key): [ɡ̊reːn]
Adjective
green
- (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green
Inflection
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)
- (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)
- (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English green.
Noun
green n (plural greenuri)
- putting green
Declension
References
- green in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɾin/ [ˈɡɾĩn]
- Rhymes: -in
- Syllabification: green
Noun
green m (plural greens or greenes)
- (golf) green
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “green”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English green. Doublet of grön.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
green c
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)
Declension
See also
- putt
- putta
References
- green in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- green in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- gener, genre, neger
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
- Homophone: gryne
Adjective
green
- green
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88