GREEN
What does "GREEN" mean?
The color of growing grass and leaves, between blue and yellow in the spectrum.
Meanings
- Of the color between blue and yellow, like grass or foliage. She painted the door a bright green.
- Concerned with or supporting protection of the environment. The city invested in green energy.
- Inexperienced, naive, or untrained. The new recruits were still green. informal
- A grassy public area or, in golf, the smooth turf around a hole. The band played on the village green.
- Pale and sickly in appearance. He turned green on the rocking boat. informal
Did you know?
- 'Green', 'grass', and 'grow' are linguistic siblings — all three sprouted from one ancient Germanic root meaning 'to grow', so the color is literally named after growth itself.
Word origin
From Old English 'grēne', from Proto-Germanic '*grōniz', closely related to 'grow' and 'grass' — all from a root meaning to sprout or flourish.
Remember it
GREEN has a double-EE in the middle like two leaves on a stem.
A little poem
Every spring it lies-
the hill swears it was never
anything but this.
haiku
Wordplay
- The new gardener was green in both senses: fond of plants, and clueless about them.
What it teaches
Green is both the newest leaf and the newest hand; inexperience and fresh growth wear the same color.
Quick facts
What does GREEN mean?
The color of growing grass and leaves, between blue and yellow in the spectrum.
Is GREEN a valid word?
Yes — GREEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GREEN?
GREEN has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GREEN come from?
From Old English 'grēne', from Proto-Germanic '*grōniz', closely related to 'grow' and 'grass' — all from a root meaning to sprout or flourish.
What can GREEN teach us?
Green is both the newest leaf and the newest hand; inexperience and fresh growth wear the same color.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.