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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



... when stepped on. Well-defined paths, innumerable, trodden deep and hard, cut into the iron soil. They nearly all ran in a northwesterly direction. The few traversing paths took a long slant. These paths, so exactly like those crossing a village green, had in all probability never been trodden by human foot. They had been made by the game animals, the swarming multitudinous game ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... after Miss Bartlett's arrival was a glorious day, like most of the days of that year. In the Weald, autumn approached, breaking up the green monotony of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of mist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the heights, battalions of black pines witnessed the change, themselves unchangeable. Either country was spanned by a cloudless sky, and in either arose the ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster

... Founding in Green-sand, Dry-sand, Loam, and Cement; the Moulding of Machine Frames, Mill-gear, Hollow-ware, Ornaments, Trinkets, Bells, and Statues; Description of Moulds for Iron, Bronze, Brass, and other Metals; Plaster ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose

... punky as that, and then we settles it that I'm to hike over and take a squint, anyway. I gets him to give me a line on what kind of a looker the warden was, and he throws me a couple of tens for campaign expenses. I was just stowin' away the green stuff as I goes through the outside office, and Piddie's ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford

... was streaming in through the windows as Magda, wrapped in a soft silken peignoir, made her way into the bathroom. Virginie, her eyes reddened from a night's weeping, was kneeling beside the sunken bath of green-veined marble, stirring sweet-smelling salts in to the steaming water. Their fragrance permeated the ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler


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