greens

Other forms of greens

plural

greenses·

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 greens

What does greens mean?

greens means "any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables".

How many syllables are in greens?

greens has 1 syllable: greens. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹinz/.

What is another word for greens?

Close synonyms include green, leafy vegetable. 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 greens a common word?

greens is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.