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grün — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • callow adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  • green adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
  • verdant adj Green in colour.
  • verdure noun The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.
  • vert noun In heraldry, the colour 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 Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  2. adj Having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
  3. adj Of a brick: unburnt.
  4. adj Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

green — full definition

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

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