green

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   looking pale and unhealthy

   you're looking green

2. 2
   noun

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

   the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker

3. 3
   verb

   turn or become green

   The trees are greening

4. 4
   noun

   The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

   How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?

6. 6
   noun

   A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.

   o'er the smooth enamelled green

8. 8
   noun

   Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.

   In that ſoft Seaſon vvhen deſcending Shovvers / Call forth the Greens, and vvake the riſing Flovvers; […]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green 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. Doublet of Gruen. 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 of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a…