Green

Quick meaning: Green is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
2. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
3. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
4. (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
5. (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
6. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
7. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.

Example Sentences

o'er the smooth enamelled green

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

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

There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.

Word Forms

• greens
• greener
• greenest
• greening
• greened

Synonyms for green

Depending on context, synonyms include emerald, grass-green, honeydew, leaf green, loden, malachite.

Antonyms for green

Common opposites include ungreen, ripe, processed, smoked, spiced, cloy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include viridity, park, colored, chromatic, commons, common.

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