GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Green mean? 

• GREEN (noun)
  The noun GREEN has 8 senses:

1. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

2. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

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)

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

6. an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

7. any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

8. street names for ketamine

  Familiarity information: GREEN used as a noun is common.

• GREEN (adjective)
  The adjective GREEN has 5 senses:

1. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

2. concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

3. not fully developed or mature; not ripe

4. looking pale and unhealthy

5. naive and easily deceived or tricked

  Familiarity information: GREEN used as an adjective is common.

• GREEN (verb)
  The verb GREEN has 1 sense:

1. turn or become green

  Familiarity information: GREEN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

green; greenness; viridity

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

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

sea green (the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea)

sage green (the color of sage leaves)

bottle green (dark to moderate or greyish green)

chrome green (a brilliant green color)

emerald (the green color of an emerald)

olive-green; olive green (a color that is lighter and greener than olive)

chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green (a shade of green tinged with yellow)

blue green; bluish green; teal (a blue-green color or pigment)

jade; jade green (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

greenishness (the property of being somewhat green)

Derivation:

green (turn or become green)

green (of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

common; commons; green; park

Context example:

they went for a walk in the park

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

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

amusement park; funfair; pleasure ground (a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement)

village green (a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land)

Instance hyponyms:

Central Park (a large park in Manhattan)

Holonyms ("green" is a part of...):

populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Green; William Green

Instance hypernyms:

labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

conservationist; environmentalist (someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution)

Holonyms ("Green" is a member of...):

Green Party (an environmentalist political party)

Derivation:

green (concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Green; Green River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Green" is a part of...):

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

green; putting green; putting surface

Context example:

the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker

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

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Holonyms ("green" is a part of...):

golf course; links course (course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

green; greens; leafy vegetable

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

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

dandelion green (edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine)

spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)

common sorrel; sorrel (large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces)

turnip greens (tender leaves of young white turnips)

wild spinach (leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach)

lamb's-quarter; pigweed; wild spinach (leaves collected from the wild)

salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)

chard; leaf beet; spinach beet; Swiss chard (long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves)

beet green (young leaves of the beetroot)

sprout (a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed))

chop-suey greens (succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Street names for ketamine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cat valium; green; honey oil; jet; K; special K; super acid; super C

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

Ketalar; ketamine; ketamine hydrochloride (a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP)

• GREEN (adjective)

Comparative: greener   
Superlative: greenest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

Synonyms:

dark-green; green; greenish; light-green

Context example:

green paint

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Green Party (an environmentalist political party)

Derivation:

Green (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not fully developed or mature; not ripe

Synonyms:

green; immature; unripe; unripened

Context example:

green wood

Similar:

unaged (not subjected to an aging process)

Antonym:

ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)

Derivation:

greenness (the state of not being ripe)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Looking pale and unhealthy

Context example:

green around the gills

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Naive and easily deceived or tricked

Synonyms:

fleeceable; green; gullible

Context example:

at that early age she had been gullible and in love

Similar:

naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)

• GREEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they green    ... he / she / it greens   
Past simple: greened   
Past participle: greened   
-ing form: greening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn or become green

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The trees are greening

Hypernyms (to "green" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

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

greenery (green foliage)

greening (the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored)

 Context examples 

“Whose are these beautiful green meadows?” said she.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Such perfect color I never saw, the grass so green, sky so blue, grain so yellow, woods so dark, I was in a rapture all the way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Before the yellow balls popped up, volunteers had already noticed green bubbles with red centers, populating a landscape of swirling gas and dust.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Snow and ice appear white and forests are green.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

There was a soldier before the door, dressed in a green uniform and wearing a long green beard.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing half so quiet as its tombstones.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the near distance, in contrast with the young-green of the tended grass, sunburnt hay-fields showed tan and gold; while beyond were the tawny hills and upland pastures.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Leafy green vegetables, beans, and peas also have B vitamins.

(B Vitamins, NIH)

Lord, how some of that Somaliland-Uganda crowd would turn a beautiful pea-green if they saw it!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A substance found in yellow and orange fruits and vegetables and in dark green, leafy vegetables.

(Beta carotene, NCI Dictionary)