CHARTREUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chartreuse mean? 

• CHARTREUSE (noun)
  The noun CHARTREUSE has 2 senses:

1. aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France

2. a shade of green tinged with yellow

  Familiarity information: CHARTREUSE used as a noun is rare.

• CHARTREUSE (adjective)
  The adjective CHARTREUSE has 1 sense:

1. of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

  Familiarity information: CHARTREUSE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARTREUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Chartreuse" is a kind of...):

cordial; liqueur (strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal)

Meronyms (substance of "Chartreuse"):

hyssop oil (used chiefly in liqueurs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shade of green tinged with yellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green

Hypernyms ("chartreuse" is a kind of...):

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

Derivation:

chartreuse (of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur)

• CHARTREUSE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

chartreuse (a shade of green tinged with yellow)

 Context examples 

Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)