Green is the colour of grass or leaves.

A place that is green is covered with grass, plants, and trees and not with houses or factories.

If you say that someone or something is green, you mean they harm the environment as little as possible.

Greens are members of green political movements.

A green is a smooth, flat area of grass around a hole on a golf course.

A green is an area of land covered with grass, especially in a town or in the middle of a village.

Green is used in the names of places that contain or used to contain an area of grass.

You can refer to the cooked leaves of vegetables such as spinach or cabbage as greens .

You can describe fruit and vegetables as green when they are unripe and not ready to be eaten.

If you say that someone is green, you mean that they have had very little experience of life or a particular job.

If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.

If someone has green fingers, they are very good at gardening and their plants grow well.