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Definition of Green

Green

  1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
  2. Having a sickly color; wan.
  3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
  4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
  5. Not roasted; half raw.
  6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
  7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
  8. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
  9. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
  10. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
  11. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
  12. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
  13. To make green.
  14. To become or grow green.

Green Quotations

Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quote
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper

I won't eat anything green.
Kurt Cobain

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi
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Green Translations

green in Afrikaans is groen
green in Dutch is groen
green in French is vert
green in Italian is verde
green in Latin is viridis, crudus
green in Portuguese is verde
green in Spanish is verde

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