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Green
English
Pronunciation
Noun
green (plural greens)
- The colour of growing foliage , as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised as Green) A member of a green party.
- (in plural greens) Green vegetables, especially brassicas .
- Eat your greens - they're good for you.
Translations
colour
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- Javanese: ijo , ijem
- Kurdish: kesk , sewz
- Latvian: zaļš (1), zaļais (2)
- Persian: سَبز (sæbz)
- Polish: zieleń f
- Slovene : zelena f
- Spanish: verde m
- Swedish: grön
- Welsh: gwyrdd, gwyrddlas
- Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): lor , lorgneser
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member of a green party
- Finnish: vihreä (Suomi )
- French: vert m, verte f
- Italian: verde m and f
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green vegetables
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- Swedish: grönt (uncountable), gröna (plural), grönsaker
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Adjective
green (comparative greener , superlative greenest )
- Having green as its colour.
- Sickly , unwell.
- Sally looks pretty green -- is she going to hurl?
- Inexperienced.
- John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
- Environmentally friendly .
- Let's buy green copier paper for the office
- (figurative) Overcome with envy.
- green with envy
- Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture
Translations
having green as its colour
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- Japanese: 緑 (みどり , midori)
- Latin: virditas
- Manchu: (niowanggiyan )
- Norwegian: grønn
- Persian: سَبز (sæbz)
- Polish: zielony m, zielona f, zielone n plural non-m-personal, zieloni m-personal plural
- Portuguese: verde
- Quenya: laiqua
- Romanian: verde
- Russian: зелёный (zeleniy)
- Serbian: zelena
- Slovak: zelená
- Slovene: zelen m, zelena f, zeleno n
- Spanish: verde
- Swedish: grön
- Vietnamese: mầu xanh
- Welsh: gwyrdd
- Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): lorg
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sickly
inexperienced
- Dutch: translates as noun: Paul is green - Paul is een groentje
- French: peu experimenté m, peu experimentée f, bleu (noun): Paul is green - Paul est peu experimenté or Paul est un bleu
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environmentally friendly
Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.
- Dutch: onervaren (3)
- Latvian: zaļš (1, 3, 4, 5), videi draudzīgs (2)
Derived terms
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