Definition of Green

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Definition of Green

Green

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.

Having a sickly color; wan.

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

Not roasted; half raw.

Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.

Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.

The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.

pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

Any substance or pigment of a green color.

To make green.

To become or grow green.

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Green Quotations

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

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi

I won't eat anything green.
Kurt Cobain

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

Green and black go well together, don't they?
Tiger Woods

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

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

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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