putting green

1. 1.

   an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

   “the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker”

   Synonymsgreenputting surface

   Broadersite

   Part ofgolf course

Questions about putting green

What does putting green mean?

putting green means "an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course".

What is another word for putting green?

Close synonyms include green, putting surface. 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 putting green a common word?

putting green is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.