Grün — meaning in English

English meaning

• callow adj Young and lacking experience of life.
• green adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
• verdant adj Colored green.
• verdure noun Fresh green color in growing plants, or the plants themselves.
• vert noun In heraldry, the color green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.

Senses

Grün is used for these senses in English:

• callow (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
• green (figurative) Inexperienced.
• green 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 (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
• verdant Green in colour.
• verdure The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.
• vert (tincture) In blazon, of the colour green.
• vert (tincture) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

callow — full definition

1. adj Young and lacking experience of life.
2. adj (archaic) Without any hair; bald.
3. adj (of a brick) Not yet fired in a kiln.
4. adj Describes a young bird that has not grown its feathers yet, or, more widely, a young animal still without fur.

green — full definition

1. adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
2. adj Inexperienced or naive.
3. adj Concerned with protecting the environment.
4. noun The color itself, or an area of grass, especially on a golf course.
5. verb To make something more environmentally friendly.

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