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Added 9 October 2026

green

/ˈɡɹiːn/ noun

In Latin: viridis Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about green at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
green:
A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

adjective

Of a green hue.
He is wearing a green shirt.
Sickly, unwell.
Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

verb

To make or turn (something) green or greener.
To become or grow green in color.
To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).

interjection

Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.

Origin

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Doublet of Gruen. See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn. The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography.

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