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5-letter words (3 found)

GENRE,GERNE,GREEN,

4-letter words (7 found)

EGER,ERNE,GENE,GERE,GREE,GREN,REEN,

3-letter words (14 found)

EEN,ENE,ENG,ERE,ERG,ERN,GEE,GEN,GER,NEE,NEG,REE,REG,REN,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EN,ER,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from green according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of green

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Definitions and meaning of green

green

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːn/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹin/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

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.

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.

Adjective

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

  1. Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
    Synonyms: verdant, vert
    Antonyms: nongreen, ungreen
  2. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
  3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
    Antonym: ripe
  5. (figurative) Inexperienced.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced
  6. (politics, sometimes capitalised) Islamist.
  7. (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
  8. (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible
  9. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
  11. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
    Synonym: eco-friendly
  12. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  13. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
    Synonyms: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
    Antonyms: processed, smoked, spiced
  14. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
  15. (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
  16. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
  17. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
    Synonym: tart
    Antonyms: cloy, sweet
  18. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
  19. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
    Antonym: antigreen
  20. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
  21. (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available for to read for free after an embargo period.
    Coordinate term: gold
Derived terms

Pages starting with “green”.

Descendants
  • Bislama: grin
  • → Marshallese: kūriin
  • Tok Pisin: grin
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Noun

green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

  1. The colour of grass and leaves; a primary additive colour midway between yellow and cyan which is evoked by light between roughly roughly 495–570 nm.
  2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
    Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
    Hyponyms: blue green, red green
  3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
    Synonym: bowling green
  5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  6. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
  10. A green light used as a signal.
  11. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
  12. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
  13. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  14. (theater, informal) Short for green room.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.

Verb

green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
  2. To become or grow green in colour.
  3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
  4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
  • (make (something) green): engreen
Derived terms
  • greenable
  • greening
Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

  • Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen

Czech

Etymology

Derived from English green.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡriːn]

Noun

green m inan

  1. (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)

Usage notes

Although the official term for the green is jamkoviště, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.

Declension

References

Further reading

  • green in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

Danish

Etymology

From English green.

Noun

green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Further reading

  • “green” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse grǫn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣreːn/
  • Hyphenation: green
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Noun

green m (plural grenen)

  1. (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
    Synonym: grove den
Derived terms
  • grenen
  • grenenhout

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English green.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
  • Hyphenation: green
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green, putting green
Derived terms
  • greenkeeper

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁin/

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green

German Low German

Alternative forms

  • gren
  • (in some other dialects) gröön (grön)
  • (in some other dialects) greun, gräun

Adjective

green

  1. (Low Prussian) green

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • gre, gree

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡreːən/

Verb

green (Late Middle English)

  1. To come to an understanding or agreement.
  2. (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: gree (obsolete)
  • Scots: gree

References

  • “grẹ̄en, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡreːn/

Adjective

green

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)

  1. (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English green.

Noun

green n (plural greenuri)

  1. putting green

Declension

References

  • green in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English green.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾin/ [ˈɡɾĩn]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: gre‧en

Noun

green m (plural greens or greenes)

  1. (golf) green

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “green”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English green. Doublet of grön.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

green c

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)

Declension

See also

  • putt
  • putta

References

  • green in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • green in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • gener, genre, neger

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɾiːn/
  • Homophones: gryne, gring

Adjective

green

  1. green

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88

Source: wiktionary.org