green
(greens, greener, greenest)Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1. Green is the colour of grass or leaves.
...shiny red and green apples...Yellow and green together make a pale green.COLOUR
2. A place that is green is covered with grass, plants, and trees and not with houses
or factories.
Cairo has only thirteen square centimetres of green space for each inhabitant.ADJ
• greenness...the lush greenness of the river valleys.N-UNCOUNT
3. Green issues and political movements relate to or are concerned with the protection
of the environment.
The power of the Green movement in Germany has made that country a leader in the drive
to recycle more waste materials.ADJ: ADJ n
4. If you say that someone or something is green, you mean they harm the environment
as little as possible.
...trying to persuade governments to adopt greener policies...ADJ
• greennessA Swiss company offers to help environmental investors by sending teams round factories
to ascertain their greenness.N-UNCOUNT
5. Greens are members of green political movements.
The Greens see themselves as a radical alternative to the two major British political
parties.N-COUNT: usu pl
6. A green is a smooth, flat area of grass around a hole on a golf course.
...the 18th green.N-COUNT
7. A green is an area of land covered with grass, especially in a town or in the middle
of a village.
...the village green.N-COUNT
8. Green is used in the names of places that contain or used to contain an area of grass.
...Bethnal Green.N-IN-NAMES: n N
9. You can refer to the cooked leaves of vegetables such as spinach or cabbage as greens.
N-PLURAL
10. If you say that someone is green, you mean that they have had very little experience
of life or a particular job.
He was a young lad, very green, very immature.ADJ
11. If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
12. If someone has green fingers, they are very good at gardening and their plants grow
well. (BRIT; in AM, use a green thumb)
You don't need green fingers to fill your home with lush leaves.PHRASE
13.
to give someone the green light: seelight
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