green
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- noun
- /ɡrin/
- The children played soccer on the green in the center of the park.
- a long green
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- Bluebird sky, kids all over the green, Frisbees, dogs.
- They only spent one night on the on the town green camped out.
- It's a big pub, the Orchard and the whole green outside was chock a block.
Examples
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All I ever wanted was a little patch of green.
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His POV: of students on the green, playing Frisbee, studying together, picnicking.
Fiction book (1995) -
"The village green," that means "England."
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There were hundreds of us on the green, all trying to remember each other's names.
Fiction book (1994) -
Go to a museum, art gallery, library, or some sort of public green space and take it in.
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Ninety acres of gardens and public greens add to the beauty of your surroundings.
Academic text (1995) -
Dupont Park was an oasis of green in the middle of Washington, D.C.
Academic text (2001) -
"Look, here's a playground!" she said desperately, glimpsing a patch of green outside an open door around the corner.
Fiction book (1999) -
Public places that escaped the flooding—town halls, schools, restaurants, and even town greens—became homemade emergency response centers.
Academic text (2018) -
On clement weekdays, Leonid Andromodov loitered in the sculpted hedgerows that faced the municipal green.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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A large public area with grass and trees for people to relax
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3.2
An open grassy area near houses where people meet or play
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3.2
Shared open land in a community like a park or pasture
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2.2
A grassy common area in a village used for play and events
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3.0
A park or grassy place in a town where people can relax and play
Idioms
- Jargon
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8.1
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Compounds
- US
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3.4
An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
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3.7
A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
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4.0
A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- NSFW
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9.9
A fictional food said to be made from people and used to warn about suspicious food
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3.1
A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
- Specialized
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4.1
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
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A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
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A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- Literature
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9.6
A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
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6.5
A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
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Etymology
Green for a town open space comes from the old English grēne meaning 'grass' and 'growing', so a village green is simply the common grassy place where people meet. That's why locals spread blankets and play on the green.