Green
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
green (plural greens)
- 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.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised as Green) A member of a green party.
- (in plural greens) Green vegetables, especially brassicas.
- Eat your greens - they're good for you.
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Translations
colour
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member of a green party
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green vegetables
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Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Having green as its colour.
- Sickly, unwell.
- Sally looks pretty green -- is she going to hurl?
- Inexperienced.
- John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Let's buy green copier paper for the office
Translations
having green as its colour
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sickly
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inexperienced
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environmentally friendly
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Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.
- Dutch: onervaren (3)
- Latvian: zaļš (1, 3, 4, 5), videi draudzīgs (2)
Derived terms
- greenback
- greengrocer
- greenhorn
- greenish
- green party
- green tea
- green with envy
- evergreen
- little green men
See also
- Wiktionary list of colours
- Wikipedia article on green