Definitions for the word "green" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. superl.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. superl.
Having a sickly color; wan.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. superl.
Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. superl.
Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. superl.
Not roasted; half raw.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. superl.
Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. superl.
Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Any substance or pigment of a green color.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To make green.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. i.
To become or grow green.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. adj.
1 of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass. 2 covered with leaves or grass. 3 (of fruit etc. Or wood) unripe or unseasoned. 4 not dried, smoked, or tanned. 5 inexperienced, gullible. 6 a (of the complexion) pale, sickly-hued. B jealous, envious. 7 young, flourishing. 8 not withered or worn out (a green old age).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
16. slang
ignorant, not wide-awake, inexperienced.—_Shakspeare._ “Do you
see any GREEN in my eye?” ironical question in a dispute.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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