Gren in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Gren

You can make 14 words from 'gren' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'gren'
• 3 letters words from 'gren'
• 2 letters words from 'gren'

4 letters words from 'gren'

GREN 5

3 letters words from 'gren'

ENG 4	ERG 4
ERN 3	GEN 4
GER 4	NEG 4
REG 4	REN 3

2 letters words from 'gren'

EN 2	ER 2
NE 2	RE 2

Definitions and meaning of gren

gren

Verb

gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)

1. Obsolete spelling of grin

Anagrams

• Eng'r, Engr, engr., gern

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Albanian

Noun

gren m

1. eggs (of silk worm)

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛːˀn/, [ˈɡ̊ʁæˀn]

Noun

gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)

1. a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
2. (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)

   I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.

   In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.

   gren af en slægt, en virksomhed

   branch of a family, a company

Inflection

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German Low German

Adjective

gren

1. Alternative form of green

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grein

Etymology

From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.

Noun

gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)

1. a branch (of a tree etc.)

Derived terms

• abildgren
• olivengren
• palmegren

References

• “gren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse grein.

Pronunciation

Noun

gren c

1. (botany) branch
   1. woody part of tree, arising from the trunk
   2. something dividing like a tree branch
   3. part of a large business or company at a particular location
   4. area; specific field in business or of knowledge
2. event; sub-event within a sport

Declension

See also

• grena sig
• förgrena sig

Derived terms

• grenklyka

Trivia

Both kvist and gren, meaning the same, are often used as a suffix in Swedish last names.

Anagrams

• regn

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English grain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɾen]

Noun

gren (nominative plural grens)

1. grain (British English: corn)

Declension

Synonyms

• glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)

Hypernyms

• plan

Derived terms

• grenabarak
• grenöp

See also

• gran

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *granō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɛːɳ/, /ɡreːɳ/, /ɡreːn/

  Rhymes: -ɛ́ːɳ, -éːɳ, -éːn

Noun

gren f (definine singular grena, plural greni, definite plural grenjen)

1. Spruce.

Derived terms

• gränegräs
• Gręnoi

Source: wiktionary.org

• (Spenser) to grin.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)