Definition of green

"green" in the noun sense

1. green, greenness, viridity

green color or pigment resembling the color of growing grass

2. park, commons, common, green

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

"they went for a walk in the park"

3. Green, William Green

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. Green

an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

5. Green, Green River

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

6. green, putting green, putting surface

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

"the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"

7. greens, green, leafy vegetable

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

8. K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C

street names for ketamine

"green" in the verb sense

1. green

turn or become green

"The trees are greening"

"green" in the adjective sense

1. green, greenish, light-green, dark-green

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

"a green tree"

"green fields"

"green paint"

2. green

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

3. green, unripe, unripened, immature

not fully developed or mature not ripe

"unripe fruit"

"fried green tomatoes"

"green wood"

4. green

looking pale and unhealthy

"you're looking green"

"green around the gills"

5. fleeceable, green, gullible

naive and easily deceived or tricked

"at that early age she had been gullible and in love"

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Quotations for green

Lord, keep my memory green! [ Dickens ]

Green wood makes a hot fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

My salad days;
When I was green in judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]

A green wound is soon healed. [ Proverb ]

The moon is made of green cheese. [ Proverb ]

Kings have no such couch as thine,
As the green that folds thy grave. [ Tennyson ]

The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the ocean's blue. [ Lowell ]

Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]

Yet, all beneath the unrivalled rose,
The lowly daisy sweetly blows;
Tho' large the forest's monarch throws
His army shade,
Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows,
Adown the glade. [ Burns ]

And all the meadows, wide unrolled,
Were green and silver, green and gold.
Where buttercups and daisies spun
Their shining tissues in the sun. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

A green winter makes a fat church-yard. [ Proverb ]

Two dry sticks will kindle a green one. [ Proverb ]

A hedge between, keeps friendship green. [ Proverb ]

Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]

Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never
But like a laurel, to grow green forever. [ Herrick ]

In love, old wood burns better than green.

Feet like sunny gems on our English green. [ Tennyson ]

And O the buttercups! that field
O' the cloth of gold, where pennons swam -
Where France set up his lilied shield,
His oriflamb,
And Henry's lion-standard rolled:
What was it to their matchless sheen,
Their million million drops of gold
Among the green! [ Jean Ingelow ]

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]

His hair just grizzled as in a green old age. [ Dryden ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

But now the clouds in airy tumult fly;
The sun, emerging, opes an azure sky;
A fresher green the smiling leaves display,
And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day. [ Parnell ]

O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock!

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! [ William Shakespeare ]

The eastern gate, all fiery red,
Opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams. [ William Shakespeare ]

Welcome, grave stranger, to our green retreats,
Where health with exercise and freedom meets. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May;
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. [ R. Southwell ]

Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. [ Milton ]

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

In thy heart there is a holy spot,
As 'mid the waste an isle of fount and palm,
Forever green! - the world’s breath enters not.
The passion-tempest may not break its calm,
'Tis thine, all thine. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. [ Bacon ]

All the tree-tops lay asleep, like green waves on the sea. [ Shelley ]

Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]

The tanager flies through the green foliage as if he would ignite the leaves. [ Thoreau ]

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. [ Swift ]

Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heaven's light vain. [ Pierpont ]

Children of wealth or want, to each is given One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven! [ O. W. Holmes ]

The rosebuds lay their crimson lips together, and the green leaves are whispering to themselves. [ Amelia B. Welby ]

The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]

He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues - even He will provide for their support. [ Hitopadesa ]

Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours. [ Ward Beecher ]

And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. [ Goethe ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]

green in Scrabble®

The word green is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters green:

GREEN
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GENRE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word green

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The 129 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In green

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green in Words With Friends™

The word green is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters green:

GENRE
(42)
GREEN
(42)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word green

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The 154 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In green

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Word Growth involving green

Shorter words in green

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Longer words containing green

azogreen

bleachgreen bleachgreens

evergreen evergreenery

evergreen evergreens

evergreen nonevergreen

evergreen semievergreen

greenalite greenalites

greenback greenbacks

greenbelt greenbelts

greenboard greenboards

greenbrier greenbriers

greened regreened

greener greenery evergreenery

greenest

greenfield greenfields

greenfinch greenfinches

greenfish greenfishes

greenflies

greenfly

greengage greengages

greengrocer greengroceries

greengrocer greengrocers

greengrocer greengrocery

greenhorn greenhorns

greenhouse greenhouses

greening regreening

greenish greenishness

greenkeeper greenkeepers

greenkeeping

greenland

greenlet greenlets

greenlight greenlighted

greenlight greenlighting

greenlight greenlights

greenlit

greenly

greenmail greenmailed

greenmail greenmailer greenmailers

greenmail greenmailing

greenmail greenmails

greenness

greenockite greenockites

greenovite greenovites

greenroom greenrooms

greens bleachgreens

greens evergreens

greens greensand greensands

greens greenschist greenschists

greens greenshank greenshanks

greens greenskeeper greenskeepers

greens greenstick greensticks

greens greenstone greenstones

greens greenstuff greenstuffs

greens greensward greenswarded

greens greensward greenswarding

greens greensward greenswards

greens regreens

greens wintergreens

greenthumbed

greenwash greenwashed

greenwash greenwashes

greenwash greenwashing

greenweed

greenwood greenwoods

nongreen

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regreen regreening

regreen regreens

ultragreen

wintergreen wintergreens