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• (UK, General Australian) enPR: grēn, МФА^(кључ): /ɡɹiːn/
• (US, Canada) enPR: grēn, МФА^(кључ): /ɡɹin/

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• Риме: -iːn

From Средњи Енглески grene, from Стари Енглески grēne, grœ̄ne, grœ̄ni (“green”), from Пра-Западно Германски *grōnī, from Пра-Германски *grōniz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Холандски groen, Low German grön, green, greun, Немачки grün, Дански and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Шведски grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

1. Having green as its color.

   Синоними: verdant, vert

   The former flag of Libya is fully green.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
2. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.

   Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?

   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth
3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. (figurative) Inexperienced.

   Синоним: Thesaurus:inexperienced

   John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak
   • 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)

     He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.

5. (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.

   Синоним: Thesaurus:gullible

6. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.

   He was green with envy.

7. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.

   Синоним: eco-friendly

   green energy

   Green New Deal

   • 2013 мај 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[2], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

   • 2021 мај 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Oatly said it hoped Blackstone’s investment would inspire other private equity firms “to steer their collective worth of $4 trillion into green investments.”

8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
9. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.^[1]

   Синоними: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked

10. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Watts Logick

      We say the meat is green when half roasted.

11. (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
    • 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)

      Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]

    • 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)

      […] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.

12. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.

    That timber is still too green to be used.

13. (wine) High or too high in acidity.

    Синоним: tart

14. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.

    Синоним: Thesaurus:new

    a green manhood

    a green wound

    • Шаблон:RQ:Burke Revolution in France
15. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
16. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
17. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.

    the green pound

    the green lira

• (having green as its colour): nongreen, ungreen
• (having green as its colour charge): antigreen
• (of bacon: unprocessed): processed, smoked, spiced
• (of wine: high in acidity): cloy, sweet
• (of certain fruits: ready to be eaten): ripe

Pages starting with "green".

• Bislama: grin
• → Marshallese: kūriin
• Ток Писин: grin

From Средњи Енглески grene, from the adjective (see above).

green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.

   green colour:  

   • 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 81:

     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.

2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

   Синоними: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger

   Hyponymи: blue green, red green

   • 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, page 62:

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

3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
   • 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233:

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

4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.

   Синоним: 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.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Milton Poems
8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Pope TOF
9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
10. A green light used as a signal.
    • 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)

      To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.

11. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

    Синоним: Thesaurus:marijuana

    • 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:

      They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green

12. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
13. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
14. (theater, informal) Short for green room.
    • 2016, Bruce Montague, The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information

      Today, actors say off-handedly, 'See you on the green' or 'I'll be in the green room' without giving the expressions much thought. In Shakespeare's day, actors changed behind the stage in the 'tiring house', […]

From Средњи Енглески grenen, from Стари Енглески grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Пра-Германски *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, Немачки grünen, Шведски gröna, Icelandic gróna.

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.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Thomson Spring

     Great spring before greened all the year.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:

     Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.

2. To become or grow green in colour.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Tennyson Ancient Sage

     Her dust is greening in your leaf

   • 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, "Flowers in Winter"

     by greening slope and singing flood

3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
   • 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)

     The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.

4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

• (make (something) green): engreen

• Appendix:Colors

Боје in Енглески · colors, colours (layout · text)
white	gray, grey	black	brown
pink	red ; crimson	orange	yellow ; cream
lime	green		cyan ; teal
azure, sky blue	blue	violet ; indigo	magenta ; purple

• Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen ^{(alphagram eegnr)}

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From Енглески green.

• МФА^(кључ): [ˈɡriːn]

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

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.^[1]

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From Енглески green.

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)

• Шаблон:R:DDO

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Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse grǫn.

• МФА^(кључ): /ɣreːn/
• Хифенација: green
• Риме: -eːn

green m (plural grenen)

1. (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris

   Синоним: grove den

• grenen
• grenenhout

Borrowed from Енглески green.

• МФА^(кључ): /ɡriːn/
• Хифенација: green
• Риме: -iːn

green m (plural greens)

1. (golf) green, putting green

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green m (plural greens)

1. (golf) green

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

green

1. (Low Prussian) green

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• gre, gree

Borrowed from Стари Француски greer; equivalent to Африканс.

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡreːən/

green (Late Middle English)

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

Шаблон:enm-conj-wk

• Енглески: gree (obsolete)
• Шкотски: gree

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

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From Old Frisian grēne, from Пра-Западно Германски *grōnī, from Пра-Германски *grōniz.

• МФА^(кључ): /ɡreːn/

green

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green

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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)

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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)

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• МФА^(кључ): /ɡriːn/
• Риме: -iːn

green c

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

Declension of green
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	green	greenen	greener	greenerna
Genitive	greens	greenens	greeners	greenernas

• gener, genre, neger ^{(alphagram eegnr)}

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From Средњи Енглески grene, from Стари Енглески grēne, from Пра-Западно Германски *grōnī.

green

1. green
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10:

     Ee green.

     In the green.

• 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

Боје in Yola · [Терм?] (layout · text)
whit, baun	gry	bhlock, blaak
rowse	reed	yulloureed	yullou, buee
*leem green	green	*meente	blúegreen
*asure	blúe		purple