# green
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: grēn, IPA: /ɡɹiːn/
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* (General American, Canada) enPR: grēn, IPA: /ɡɹin/
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* 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 "obscene, pornographic, 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
    The former flag of Libya is fully green.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .
* (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
    Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii]:to look so green and pale
* Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
    Antonym: ripe
* (figurative) Inexperienced.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced
    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
** 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:I might be angry […] with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.
** 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.
* (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
** 1999, Roxanne L. Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism‎, page 6:In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of Cold War discourse and anti-Asian polemics about the "Yellow Peril".
** 2006, Benjamin Soares, Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa‎, page 11:Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace.
** 2009, Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945‎, page 317:While Bill Clinton struggled during the 1990s to bring order to a chaotic world increasingly wracked by ethnic and religious conflict, critics detected signs that a new "green" threat - radical Islam - was supplanting the earlier "red threat" - international communism - that had kept every president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan awake at night.
* (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
    a green manhood
    a green wound
** 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation
** 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, page 12:"How old was I when you first took me in a boat?" "Five and you were nearly a man when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. Can you remember?"
* (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible
* (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
    Synonym: envious
    He was green with envy.
* (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
    Synonyms: eco-friendly; see also Thesaurus:environmentally friendly
    green energy
    Green New Deal
** 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 22, page 30:As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
** 2021 May 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Oatly said it hoped Blackstone’s investment would inspire other private equity firms “to steer their collective worth of $4 trillion into green investments.”
* (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.
** 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:We say the meat is green when half roasted.
* (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.
* Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
    That timber is still too green to be used.
** 1913, Zona Gale, “III. One for the Money”, in When I Was a Little Girl, page 43:The wood yard was a series of vacant lots where some mysterious person piled cords and cords of wood, which smelled sweet and green and gave out cool breaths.
* (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.
    the green pound
    the green lira
* (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
** 2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:Today most open access in medicine and biomedicine is gold, but in every other field it's mostly green.
* (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
** 2014 April 17, Michael Russo, “Understanding the Powdered Metal Process: Spotlight on Compacting”, in National Bronze‎, archived from the original on 2024-10-14:The pressure required to obtain a given green density depends upon the metal powder material being pressed. Excessive pressures can present some complex problems such as punch and die fractures, slip cracks and cleavage fractures in the green part. Although high pressures are required for pressing high density shapes they should not be excessive.

##### Derived terms

English terms starting with “green”
* American green tree frog
* Australian green tree frog
* ayegreen
* bleen
* blue-green
* blue-green alga
* Blue-Green alliance
* blue-green bacterium
* Board of Green Cloth
* Chinese green radish
* colorless green ideas sleep furiously
* common green lacewing
* dark green fritillary
* Deadly never-green
* Deadly Never-Green
* don't buy green bananas
* eastern green drake
* engreen
* European green woodpecker
* evergreen
* giant green slantface
* God's green earth
* go green
* grass-green
* greater green leafbird
* great green macaw
* green about the gills
* green accounting
* Greenacre
* green acres
* greenage
* green alder
* green alga
* green ammonia
* green anaconda
* green anarchism
* green anarchist
* green and pale
* green and wan
* green anole
* green ant
* green apron
* green army
* green around the gills
* green arrow
* green as a gooseberry
* green as grass
* green ash
* green at the gills
* green audit
* greenback
* green-backed
* green-backed firecrown
* green-backed flycatcher
* green-backed gerygone
* green-backed tit
* green bag
* green-bag
* green baize
* green ban
* green band
* green bass
* Green Bay
* green bean
* green-beard effect
* green-bed
* green bee-eater
* green behind the ears
* greenbelt
* green belt
* Green Beret
* green bice
* green big-eyed tree frog
* green-bind
* green bine
* green bird
* green-black
* green blights
* green-blue
* greenboard
* green body
* green bond
* green-bone
* greenbone
* green-book
* green book
* green-bottle
* greenbottle
* green-bottle fly
* green bottle fly
* greenbottle fly
* green box
* Greenboy
* green brass
* green-breasted pitta
* green bridge
* green brier
* greenbrier
* greenbroke
* green-broke
* green broom
* greenbug
* green bug
* green building
* green bulrush
* green burial
* green butter
* green cancer
* green card
* green cardamom
* green carder
* green-carder
* Greencastle
* green caviar
* green chain
* green-charge
* green cheese
* green chemistry
* greenchop
* green Christmas
* green cinnabar
* green circle
* Greencloth
* green cloth
* greencloth
* green coat
* green-coat
* green-cod
* green coffer
* green collar
* green-collar
* green colonialism
* green con
* green copperas
* green cormorant
* green corn
* green corridor
* Green Cove Springs
* green crab
* greencrop
* green crop
* green cross
* Green Cross Code
* green curtain
* green diallage
* green diesel
* green dolphin
* green door
* green dragon
* green drake
* green drops
* green ear disease
* green earth
* green ebony
* greened
* green eel
* green endive
* green energy
* green ephedra
* greener
* Green Erin
* greener pastures
* greenery
* greenery-yallery
* greeneye
* green-eyed
* green-eyed monster
* green eyeshade
* greenfaced
* green fairy
* green fallow
* green fat
* greenfeed
* green fever
* Greenfield
* greenfield
* green field
* green fields
* green fillet
* greenfinch
* green-fingered
* green fingers
* green-finned
* green fire
* green-fish
* greenfish
* green flag
* greenflag
* green flash
* greenflation
* green fluorescent protein
* green-fly
* greenfly
* green FN
* greenfodder
* green fringelip labeo
* green frog
* green fruit beetle
* green fund
* greengage
* green gate
* green gentian
* green gill
* greengill
* green-gill
* green-gilled
* green ginger
* green girl
* green gland
* green glass
* green goblin
* green goddess
* Green Goddess
* green-gold
* green gold
* green-golden
* green goods
* green goose
* green gown
* green gram
* green grasshopper
* green-gray
* green-grey
* green grosbeak
* Green Grove
* green hairstreak
* greenhand
* green hand
* green handshake
* green hastings
* greenhead
* green head
* green-headed sunbird
* greenheart
* Green Heart
* green hellebore
* green heron
* greenhew
* green-hide
* greenhide
* green hide
* greenhood
* greenhorn
* green hornet
* green hotel
* green hydrogen
* greeniac
* greenie
* greenify
* green indigo
* green in earth
* greening
* green-ink brigade
* green ink brigade
* green-ink letter
* green in one's eye
* green in the gills
* green investing
* green iodide of mercury
* green iron ore
* greenish
* Green Island
* greenism
* Greenist
* greenium
* greenize
* Green Jackets
* green jaundice
* green-jerkin
* green jersey
* green jobfish
* green joe-pye weed
* green jointfir
* green joke
* green June beetle
* green junglefowl
* greenkeeper
* green keeper
* greenkeeping
* greenkin
* green label
* green labeling
* green labelling
* green lacewing
* Green Lake
* Greenland
* green lane
* greenlash
* green laver
* green lead ore
* green leaf lettuce
* green leech
* green-leek
* green leek
* green-leek parrot
* greenlet
* green light
* green-light
* Green Line
* greenline
* green line
* greenling
* green linnet
* Green Linnets
* green lizard
* green looper
* green louse
* green-louse
* green lung
* greenly
* green lynx spider
* green mamba
* greenman
* green man
* greenmans
* green manure
* green marble
* greenmarket
* green marsh hawk
* green Mediterranean diet
* green milk
* green-minded
* green mineral
* green monardella
* green monkey
* green monkey disease
* Green Mountains
* Green Mountain State
* green mustard
* green mustard cabbage
* green nail syndrome
* greenness
* green nightshade
* green non-sulfur bacteria
* green notice
* green oak
* green old age
* green olive
* green-on-green
* green onion
* green open access
* green ormer
* greenout
* green out
* green oyster
* green paper
* Green Park
* Green Party
* green party
* green pass
* green pea
* Greenpeace
* green peafowl
* green pea galaxy
* green-peak
* green-peek
* green pepper
* green peril
* green pheasant
* green pigeon
* green pit viper
* green-plot
* green plover
* green pocket
* green-pollack
* green potato
* green pound
* green prawn
* green premium
* green privilege
* green queen
* green racer
* green ray
* green revolution
* green ribbon
* Green River
* Green River Ordinance
* green road
* green rod
* green roof
* greenroom
* green-room
* green room
* green rose
* green rouge
* green rush
* green rushes
* green salad
* green salt
* green-salted
* green salt of Magnus
* green-sand
* greensand
* green sand
* green sandpiper
* greensauce
* green sauce
* greenscamming
* greenscape
* greenschist, green schist
* greenscreen
* green screen
* green sea
* green-seal
* green sea turtle
* green seaweed
* greenshank
* green shave
* green-shave
* green-shaving
* greenship
* greenshirt
* greenshoe
* greenshoe option
* greensick
* green-sickness
* greensickness
* green sickness
* green-sicknessed
* green-side
* greenskeeper
* greenskin
* green-sleeves
* green slip
* green sloke
* green smoothie
* green snake
* green snow
* green soap
* green-soil
* greensome
* green space
* greenspace
* greenspeak
* greensperson
* green spot
* Green Springs
* green spruce
* green spurge
* green-staff
* green-stall
* green stamp
* green state
* greenstick fracture
* green stocks
* green-stone
* greenstone
* Green Street
* greenstrip
* Green Striper
* green stuff
* greenstuff
* green-stuff
* green sulfur bacteria
* green swallow
* greensward
* greenswarded
* green syrup
* green table
* green-tail
* green-tailed towhee
* green-tailed trainbearer
* greentailing
* green tape
* green tar
* green tax
* green tea
* green-tea cake
* green tea cake
* greentech
* greentext
* greenth
* green thread
* green thumb
* green tobacco sickness
* green-to-green
* green top
* green-tree ant
* green tree ant
* green tree frog
* green turtle
* green ultramarine
* green 'un
* green-up
* green up
* green vegetable bug
* green-veined white
* Greenville
* green violet
* green-violet
* green vitriol
* green wall
* green warbler
* greenward
* greenware
* greenwash
* greenwashing
* green waste
* green water
* green-water navy
* green wave
* greenwax
* green wax
* greenway
* green way
* greenweed
* green-wellie
* green-welly
* green welly brigade
* green whistle
* green-white-checker
* green-white-checkered
* green-white-chequer
* green-white-chequered
* Greenwich
* green-wing
* greenwing
* green-winged
* green withe
* green with envy
* green wood
* green-wood
* greenwood
* green woodpecker
* green-wort
* greeny
* greenyard
* green-yard
* green yard
* green-yellow
* Green Zionism
* grue
* house-green
* hypergreen
* in green
* in the green tree
* in the green tree … in the dry
* keep the bones green
* killer green bud
* knight of the green baize
* knight of the green cloth
* lesser green leafbird
* light green cell hormone
* little green bee-eater
* little green man
* Macaya ggreen twig anole
* Magnus' green salt
* microgreen
* mint green
* Monmore Green
* monogreen
* multigreen
* multi-green
* not as green as one is cabbage-looking
* on God's green Earth
* on God's green earth
* outgreen
* parliamentary green
* read the green
* red-and-green macaw
* reddish-green
* red-green-brown alliance
* retrogreen
* rifle green
* sage green
* salt-green
* scared green
* sea-green incorruptible
* see something green in one's eye
* sempergreen
* sengreen
* silgreen
* sillgreen
* smooth green snake
* snot-green
* soldiers-in-green
* southern green stink bug
* still-green
* supergreen
* the grass is always greener on the other side
* the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
* The Green
* the Green Island
* the Green Isle
* thick-billed green pigeon
* three green
* ultragreen
* ungreen
* verigreen
* Verona green
* violet-green swallow
* yellow-green
* yellow-green alga
* yellow-green brushfinch

##### Descendants

* Bislama: grin
* → Marshallese: kūriin
* Tok Pisin: grin

##### References

* ↑ “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

#### 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
    green:
    bright green :
** 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 81:In a period of increasing industrialization and the palette of grey, brown, and black that came to dominate the modern city, greens provided a refreshing contrast, seemingly bringing the outdoors in.
* (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
    Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
    Hyponyms: blue green, red green
** 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, page 62:How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?
* (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
** 1964 June 16, Arnold Palmer, quotee, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since.
** 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233:There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.
* (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.
** 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:o'er the smooth enamelled green
* (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
** 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 7:In that ſoft Seaſon vvhen deſcending Shovvers / Call forth the Greens, and vvake the riſing Flovvers; […]
* Any substance or pigment of a green color.
* 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.
* (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
** 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto‎, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:You're better of smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head.
** 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green
* (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
* (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
* (theater, informal) Short for green room.
** 2016, Bruce Montague, The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information:Today, actors say off-handedly, 'See you on the green' or 'I'll be in the green room' without giving the expressions much thought. In Shakespeare's day, actors changed behind the stage in the 'tiring house', […]

##### Derived terms
###### Nouns

* absinthe green
* advanced green
* alkali green
* almond green, almond-green
* aniline green
* antigreen
* apple green, apple-green
* army green
* ay-green
* Berlin green
* Bermuda green, Bermuda-green
* bice green
* bladder green, bladder-green
* bleaching green, bleaching-green
* blue green, blue-green
* blue-green deployment
* Bolley's green
* bottle green, bottle-green
* bowling green, bowling-green
* brat green
* brilliant green
* British racing green
* bromocresol green
* bronze green, bronze-green
* Brunswick green, Brunswick-green
* cadmium green
* Caledon jade green
* Casselmann's green
* cedar green, cedar-green
* celandine green, celandine-green
* Chinese green
* Christmas green
* chrome green, chrome-green
* cliffgreen
* cliff green
* cobalt green
* cossack green
* Cossack green
* crown green
* deep green, deep-green
* drake's-neck green
* emerald green, emerald-green
* English green
* Eve green
* fair green
* Florida green
* forest green, forest-green
* gaudy-green
* grape green, grape-green
* grass green, grass-green
* grasshopper green
* green-blind
* green fee, greens fee
* greengrocer
* greenhouse
* green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper
* greenless
* greenside
* greensman
* greenwash
* green water
* Guignet's green
* Hooker's green
* Hungary green, Hungary-green
* hunter green, hunter's green
* in the green
* invisible green
* iodine green
* Irish green
* Jack in the green
* jungle green, jungle-green
* kelly green, kelly-green
* Kendal green
* Key Green
* khaki green
* leaf green
* leek green, leek-green
* lettuce green, lettuce-green
* leucomalachite green
* lime green, lime-green
* Lincoln green
* Lintz Green
* long green
* malachite green
* Marina green, Marina-green
* mineral green, mineral-green
* mitis green
* Mittler's green
* Monastral Green
* mondegreen
* moss green, moss-green
* mountain green, mountain-green
* night green
* Nile green, Nile-green
* oil green
* olive green, olive-green
* on the green
* overgreen
* Paris green
* Parliamentary green
* parrot green, parrot-green
* Paul Veronese green
* pea green, pea-green
* phthalo green
* pine green
* pistachio green, pistachio-green
* Pomona green
* Potter's Green
* Potters Green
* Prussian green, Prussian-green
* putting green, putting-green
* racing green
* red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness
* red green, red-green
* regreen
* RGB
* rifle green
* rifle-green
* Rinman's green
* Rinnemann's green
* rub of the green, rub on the green
* Rushey Green
* Rushy Green
* Russian green, Russian-green
* sage-green
* sap green
* sap-green
* Saxon green, Saxon-green
* Scheele's green
* Schweinfurt green
* schweinfurt green
* sea green, sea-green
* see any green in one's eye
* Skobeloff green
* soylent green
* Spanish green, Spanish-green
* spring green
* sync on green
* town green
* turquoise green, turquoise-green
* vat jade green
* Veronese green, Veronese-green
* Vienna green
* village green (a green space, not a color)
* vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-green
* vomit green
* Wedgwood green
* wigs on the green
* zinc green

###### Proper nouns

* Acocks Green
* Adderley Green
* Ash Green
* Ayot Green
* Bannister Green
* Barnt Green
* Bell Green
* Bethnal Green
* Blowers Green
* Bordesley Green
* Borough Green
* Bostock Green
* Bounds Green
* Bournes Green
* Bowling Green
* Broad Green
* Browston Green
* Bucks Green
* Burnham Green
* Burton Green
* Cage Green
* Caldecott Green
* Calvert Green
* Carol Green
* Castle Green
* Cherry Green
* Chiltern Green
* Cole Green
* Collins Green
* Cox Green
* Crewe Green
* Cross Green
* Croxley Green
* Cutlers Green
* Cutnall Green
* Danzey Green
* Davenport Green
* Dunton Green
* Eight Ash Green
* Emersons Green
* Emmer Green
* Eskdale Green
* Eye Green
* Farnborough Green
* Frimley Green
* Glasgow Green
* Godley Green
* God's Blessing Green
* Golders Green
* Goose Green
* Gosford Green
* Grayson Green
* Green Fairfield
* Green Hammerton
* Green Street
* Green Street Green
* Gretna Green
* Hall Green
* Heald Green
* Hindley Green
* Hinton on the Green
* Hither Green
* Holywell Green
* Hoo Green
* Horton Green
* Hough Green
* Hurst Green
* Ickwell Green
* Juniper Green
* Kensal Green
* Key Green
* Kitt Green
* Kitts Green
* Lacey Green
* Langley Green
* Langton Green
* Lea Green
* Lintz Green
* Longwell Green
* Marle Green
* Marston Green
* Matfield Green
* Molehill Green
* Monmore Green
* New Ash Green
* Norwood Green
* Olive Green
* Palmers Green
* Parsons Green
* Partridge Green
* Peggs Green
* Plumpton Green
* Potter's Green
* Radway Green
* Roe Green
* Rose Green
* Rushey Green
* Rushy Green
* Saxtead Green
* Scholar Green
* Scout Green
* Seer Green
* Seneley Green
* Short Green
* Slade Green
* Southey Green
* Stanley Green
* Stepney Green
* Stickling Green
* Stroud Green
* Talbot Green
* Tea Green
* The Green
* Town Green
* Turnham Green
* Tylers Green
* Udny Green
* Walham Green
* Walley's Green
* Welham Green
* West Green
* Weston-on-the-Green
* Willesden Green
* Winson Green
* Wivelsfield Green
* Woodford Green
* Wood Green
* Woolmer Green
* Wormald Green
* Wrea Green
* Wylde Green

##### Related terms

* greens
* wintergreen

##### Descendants

* →⇒ Chinese: 果嶺 / 果岭 (guǒlǐng)
* → Czech: green
* → Danish: green
* → Dutch: green
* → Finnish: griini
* → German: Green
* → Marshallese: kūriin

##### 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.
** a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:Great spring before greened all the year.
** 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 30: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.
** 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ancient Sage”, in Tiresias and Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 63:O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom.
** 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, Flowers in Winter:by greening slope and singing flood
* (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.
* (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
* (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
** 2023 June 28, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 18:"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."

##### Synonyms

* (make (something) green): engreen

##### Derived terms

* greenable
* greening

##### Translations
### See also

* biliverdin
* chlorophyll
* paloverde
* salad days
* salsa verde
* secondary color
* terre verte
* thallium
* thallus
* verdant
* verdigris
* verdin
* verditer
* verdure
* verjuice
* vert
* vireo
* virescent
* virid
* viridescent
* Appendix:Colors
Colors/Colours in English (layout · text) :
| red | orange | yellow | green | blue (incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise) | purple / violet |
| pink (including magenta) | brown | | white | gray/grey | black |

### Anagrams

* Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from English green.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [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

* ↑ “Golf Club Hradec Králové, Jan. 6, 2010”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2010 January 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 May 2010

### 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: /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: /ɡriːn/
* Hyphenation: green
* Rhymes: -iːn

#### Noun

green m (plural greens)
* (golf) green, putting green

##### Derived terms

* greenkeeper

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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: /ˈɡreːən/

### Verb

green (Late Middle English)
* To come to an understanding or agreement.
* (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### 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: [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: /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: /ɡriːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

green c
* (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)

#### 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: /ɡriːn/
* Homophone: gryne

### Adjective

green
* green
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:Oore hart cam' t' oore mouth, an zo w' all ee green;Our hearts came to our mouth, and so with all in the 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
Colors in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text) :
| whit, baun | gry | bhlock, ghou |
| reed | yulloureed | yullou, buee |
| *leem green | green | *meente |
| blúegreen | *asure | blue |
| | purple | rowse |