green
/ˈɡɹiːn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.13 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens."
- "How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?"
- "I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since."
- "There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens."
- "o'er the smooth enamelled green"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *gróh₁nis Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green 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. Doublet of Gruen. 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, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn. The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɹiːn/
- British English: /ˈɡɹiːn/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Slang
- American usage
- Informal
- Dated
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
absinthe green
advanced green
alkali green
almond green
almond-green
aniline green
apple green
apple-green