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say it: green
green is a noun, adjective and verb meaning "green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹin/ — green. It carries 14 recorded senses.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
“they went for a walk in the park”
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
“the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker”
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
street names for ketamine
of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
“a green tree”
“green fields”
“green paint”
concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
naive and easily deceived or tricked
“at that early age she had been gullible and in love”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for green come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.