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Green

adjective
(compar. greener; superl. greenest)
1.
Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass.  Synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green.  "Green fields" , "Green paint"
2.
Concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party.
3.
Not fully developed or mature; not ripe.  Synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened.  "Fried green tomatoes" , "Green wood"
4.
Looking pale and unhealthy.  "Green around the gills"
5.
Naive and easily deceived or tricked.  Synonyms: fleeceable, gullible.
noun
1.
Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass.  Synonyms: greenness, viridity.
2.
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.  Synonyms: common, commons, park.
3.
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952).  Synonym: William Green.
4.
An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.
5.
A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River.  Synonym: Green River.
6.
An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course.  Synonyms: putting green, putting surface.
7.
Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables.  Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable.
8.
Street names for ketamine.  Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C.
verb
(past & past part. greened; pres. part. greening)
1.
Turn or become green.



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"Green" Quotes from Famous Books



... the drawing-room. Lady Aubrey was lying back on the velvet sofa, a little green paroquet that was accustomed to wander tamely about the room perching on her hand. She was holding the field against Lord Rupert and Mr. Addlestone in a three-cornered duel of wits, while M. de Querouelle sat by, his plump hands ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... persuaded Terry to take a try at Meredith and lent him my green cloth copy of Harry Richmond. Three days ago I found the seventh page turned down at the corner, and suspecting that this marked the final frontier of his advance, I tied a strand of green silk thread about the volume. It was still there this morning, though Terry daily and stoutly maintains ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer

... partly to rest Polly, and partly that he might more thoroughly enjoy the woodland scenery through the umbrageous canopy of which the sun was sending his slanting rays and covering the sward with a confused chequer-work of green and gold. ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne

... of Harmar's campaign were soon apparent. In the closing months of 1790, the citizens of Ohio, Monongahela, Harrison, Randolph, Kanawha, Green-Briar, Montgomery, and Russel counties, in western Virginia, sent an appeal for immediate aid to the governor of that state, stating that their frontier on a line of nearly four hundred miles along the Ohio, was continually exposed to ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce

... be a procession, but I believe it didn't process. I never saw anything whiz and crack so in all my life! The fire danced and ran all over the city as if it was alive! It burnt just as if it was glad of it. The trees are all black where the green was scorched off. You wouldn't think it was summer. It doesn't look like winter. Father says it ...
— Dotty Dimple At Home • Sophie May


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