GREEN | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of green in English greenadjective uk /ɡriːn/ us /ɡriːn/

green adjective (COLOUR)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 of a colour between blue and yellow; of the colour of grass: green vegetables

• The male mallard has a green head and reddish-brown chest.
• He's got pink walls and a green carpet, which to my mind looks all wrong.
• I think I'll take your advice and get the green dress.
• I put my new green shirt in a hot wash and the colour ran.
• I wore that skirt with the green spots.

Common colours

• black and tan
• blue
• bluely
• blueness
• bluey
• bluish
• brown
• greenish
• greenly
• orange
• pinkish
• pinkness
• purple
• purpleness
• purplish
• red
• reddish
• yellowish
• yellowness

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green adjective (POLITICAL)

B2 (also Green) relating to the protection of the environment or to political parties or groups whose aim is to protect the environment: green politics/issues a green campaigner/activistGreen Party The country's Green Party has pledged to invest heavily in public transport.  go green to do more to protect nature and the environment: The Chancellor proposed a crackdown on car and plane emissions, and the introduction of tax incentives to go green. See more

• There is a growing current of support for Green issues among voters.
• The government's new-found enthusiasm for green issues has been welcomed by environmentalists.
• It's not very green, throwing away so much rubbish.
• I'm going to try to be a bit greener and recycle more.

Politics - general words

• anti-capitalism
• anti-capitalist
• anti-communism
• anti-communist
• anti-fascism
• interparty
• interpellate
• interpellation
• interventionist
• lab
• parliament
• party politics
• personality cult
• pinko
• plank
• statesman
• statesmanlike
• stateswoman
• subsidiarity
• super-conservative

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Environmental issues

green adjective (PLANTS)

B1 covered with grass, trees, and other plants: the green hills of Ireland Gardening - general words

• allotmenteer
• allotmenteering
• aquaponics
• arborist
• bed
• hedgerow
• hedging
• homegrown
• horticultural
• horticulturally
• pot something on phrasal verb
• pot something up phrasal verb
• prune
• regraft
• regreen
• weeding
• weedy
• window box
• xenograft
• xeriscape

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green adjective (NOT READY)

(especially of fruit) not ready to eat, or (of wood) not dry enough to use: green bananas/tomatoes Various qualities of food

• candy-coat
• candy-coated
• cheesy
• citric
• cordon bleu
• creamily
• digestible
• gut-friendly
• halal
• herby
• homegrown
• homemade
• nutty
• ripeness
• salted
• sharpness
• shelf-stable
• single-estate
• unbalanced
• waxy

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green adjective (NOT EXPERIENCED)

informal not experienced or trained: I was very green when I started working there. Inexperienced (of people)

• armchair
• at an impressionable age
• be new to this game idiom
• be someone's first rodeo idiom
• be wet behind the ears idiom
• innocence
• innocency
• innocent
• innocently
• maladroitly
• rubbish
• uninformed
• uninitiated
• unrefined
• unscholarly
• unseasoned
• untravelled
• untutored
• unversed
• unworldly

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Related word

greenness

Idioms

be green with envy give the green light to something go/turn green greennoun uk /ɡriːn/ us /ɡriːn/

green noun (COLOUR)

A2 [ C or U ] the colour of grass; a colour between blue and yellow: light/pale green dark/bottle green   Tolga TEZCAN/E+/GettyImages

• I like rich jewel colours, such as purple, blue, and green.
• He's colour-blind and can't distinguish between red and green easily.
• The spelling mistakes in the text had been highlighted in green.
• You look nice in green.
• If you put together yellow and blue paint you get green.

Common colours

• black and tan
• blue
• bluely
• blueness
• bluey
• bluish
• brown
• greenish
• greenly
• orange
• pinkish
• pinkness
• purple
• purpleness
• purplish
• red
• reddish
• yellowish
• yellowness

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green noun (POLITICS)

(also Green) a member or supporter of a political party or group whose aim is to protect the environment: He used to be a Liberal, but now he's a Green. The Greens won power in the local council election. I know that many greens will object to the whole idea of sustainable growth and green capitalism.

• Many members of the Parliament, many of whom are Greens, said they would block the legislation.

Politics - general words

• anti-capitalism
• anti-capitalist
• anti-communism
• anti-communist
• anti-fascism
• interparty
• interpellate
• interpellation
• interventionist
• lab
• parliament
• party politics
• personality cult
• pinko
• plank
• statesman
• statesmanlike
• stateswoman
• subsidiarity
• super-conservative

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Environmental issues

green noun (GRASS)

[ C ] an area planted with grass, especially for use by the public: village green Children were playing on the village green.   photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages [ C ] mainly UK used as a part of a name: Sheep's Green [ C ] a flat area of grass surrounding the hole on a golf course   Chris Babcock/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages

• The police used dogs to clear the campers off the village green.
• They're holding the village fête on the green.
• The pub is opposite a charming village green.
• The green used to be used as a pitch for the local cricket team.
• The signs asked visitors to keep off the green.

Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities

• 15-minute city
• anti-development
• arrondissement
• backstreet
• backstreets
• downtown
• growth area
• industrial estate
• industrial park
• inner ring
• mean streets
• medina
• plaza
• precinct
• residential
• slum
• suburbia
• the West End
• the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
• wasteland

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green noun (FOOD)

 greens [ plural ] the leaves of green vegetables such as spinach or cabbage when eaten as food: Come on now, eat your greens! See more (Definition of green from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

green | American Dictionary

greenadjective, noun [ C/U ] us /ɡrin/

green adjective, noun [C/U] (COLOR)

Add to word list Add to word list (of) the color that is a mixture of blue and yellow; the color of grass: a green dress [ C ] I don’t like that green.

Idioms

a green thumb green with envy greenadjective [ -er/-est only ] us /ɡrin/

green adjective [-er/-est only] (OF PLANTS)

of or relating to grass, trees, and other plants: I’d like a green salad (= made with leafy vegetables).

green adjective [-er/-est only] (POLITICAL)

relating to the protection of the environment: green politics

green adjective [-er/-est only] (NOT READY)

not experienced or trained: I was pretty green when I joined this company. greennoun [ C ] regional US us /ɡrin/

green noun [C] (PLANTS)

an area planted with grass, esp. for use by the public: The fair will be held on the green behind the library. A green is also an area of smooth grass surrounding a hole on a golf course. (Definition of green from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

green | Business English

greenadjective   ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY uk /ɡriːn/ us Add to word list Add to word list relating to or believing in the protection of the natural environment: green issues/politics/solutions Small companies need green solutions to be more affordable. Car manufacturers are investing in green technology. Their recycling policies are very green. a green campaigner/activist Companies are becoming greener in response to customer expectations.  go green to start doing things in a way that protects the natural environment: There are many benefits for developers and builders who decide to go green. My supermarket went green last year and has stopped supplying free plastic bags. (Definition of green from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of green

green Such green speculations are problematic and will not be pursued further; purely human needs are the concern here. From the Cambridge English Corpus There are views over the green roof below and into the canopies of the surrounding trees. From the Cambridge English Corpus Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city and surrounding countryside. From the Cambridge English Corpus Luminance-defined targets had the same hue and saturation as the background, whereas saturation-defined targets were green and equiluminant with the background. From the Cambridge English Corpus And if the soil is good, then the green twig will not be long in coming, and only a warm sun will nourish it. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is consistent with the conclusion that people typically see green objects as green, orange objects as orange, and so forth. From the Cambridge English Corpus We found that for both red and green center cells the data could be perfectly fitted by either mixed or pure surrounds. From the Cambridge English Corpus Cells of opposite polarity to the central reference cell are shown in red and those of the same polarity in green. From the Cambridge English Corpus Therefore, white-vented mynas probably preferred the green patches among residential buildings, as this may have allowed them to more efficiently exploit ephemeral anthropogenic food sources. From the Cambridge English Corpus Recent use of green oak springs from the realisation that fairly young trees offer a potential resource which can be converted to provide reasonable sections. From the Cambridge English Corpus For each directed green segment, there is an eaten square on its left side, and there is a blue (uneaten) square on its right side. From the Cambridge English Corpus Though more costly, the more sustainable option is the use of green manures. From the Cambridge English Corpus In other words, as the rate of import increases, the proportion of the obsidian assemblage that is green decreases. From the Cambridge English Corpus A popular explanation holds that large green jurisdictions have been forcing their trading partners to trade or ratchet up their regulation. From the Cambridge English Corpus But having said that, debbie tucker green's plays are real left-side-of-the-brain pieces of writing. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with green

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brilliant greenFaecal samples were directly enriched in selenite brilliant green broth and selenite broth as described above. From the Cambridge English Corpus   deep greenThe okra variety is a day-neutral plant with deep green, broad leaves and moderate canopy height. From the Cambridge English Corpus   dull greenIt has oval-shaped dull green leaves and many peduncles bearing rounded inflorescences of bright magenta or purplish-pink flowers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with green What is the pronunciation of green?

Translations of green

in Chinese (Traditional) 顏色, 綠色的，草綠色的, 政治的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 颜色, 绿色的，草绿色的, 政治的… See more in Spanish verde, medioambiental, green de golf… See more in Portuguese verde, ambiental, verde [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian हिरवा, पर्यावरणस्नेही, पर्यावरणदक्ष… See more 緑（色）の, 草・植物で覆われた, 青々とした… See more yeşil, tabiata/çevreyi korumaya ilişkin, yeşillik… See more gourmand/-ande, verdoyant/-ante, vert/verte… See more verd, mediambiental… See more groen, onrijp, nieuw… See more நீலம் மற்றும் மஞ்சள் இடையே ஒரு நிறம், புல்லின் நிறம், சுற்றுச்சூழல் பாதுகாப்பு தொடர்பான… See more हरा, हरित, पर्यावरण की सुरक्षा से संबंधित… See more લીલું, લીલો રંગ, લીલા પર્યાવરણના રક્ષણ સાથે સંબંધિત… See more grøn, umoden, uerfaren… See more grön, omogen, grönska… See more hijau, mentah, tiada pengalaman… See more grün, unreif, unerfahren… See more grønn, miljøvennlig, miljø-… See more سبز, ہرا, ماحولیات کے تحفظ سے متعلق… See more зелений, нестиглий, неспілий… See more ఆకుపచ్చ, పర్యావరణ పరిరక్షణకు సంబంధించినది, పచ్చని… See more সবুজ, নীল এবং হলুদের মধ্যের একটি রঙে, ঘাসের রঙের… See more zelený, nezralý, nezkušený… See more hijau, mentah, tak berpengalaman… See more ที่มีสีเขียว, ยังไม่สุก, อ่อนด้วยประสบการณ์… See more màu xanh lá cây, non, xanh… See more zielony, ekologiczny, zieleń… See more 초록색의, (식물이 우거져) 푸른, 환경 보호의… See more verde, ecologico, inesperto… See more Need a translator?

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  • Adjective 
    • green (COLOUR)
    • green (POLITICAL)
    • go green
    • green (PLANTS)
    • green (NOT READY)
    • green (NOT EXPERIENCED)
  • Noun 
    • green (COLOUR)
    • green (POLITICS)
    • green (GRASS)
    • green (FOOD)
    • greens
• American   
  • Adjective, noun 
    • green (COLOR)
  • Adjective 
    • green (OF PLANTS)
    • green (POLITICAL)
    • green (NOT READY)
  • Noun 
    • green (PLANTS)
• Business   
  • Adjective 
    • green
    • go green
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