chartreuse

1. 1.

   aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France

   Broaderliqueur
2. 2.

   a shade of green tinged with yellow

   Synonymsyellow greenyellowish greenParis greenpea green

   Broadergreen

1. 1.

   of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of chartreuse

plural

chartreuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chartreuse

What does chartreuse mean?

chartreuse means "aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chartreuse?

chartreuse has 2 syllables: char-treuse. The stress falls on "treuse". In IPA it is /ʃɑɹˈtɹuz/.

What is another word for chartreuse?

Close synonyms include yellow green, yellowish green, Paris green, pea green. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chartreuse a common word?

chartreuse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.