Although these sanctuaries are located in the most barren places, they are beautiful, incredibly green places. A jacket looked like a green forest with its beautiful chaos of green feathers. “Green.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verdant. Retrieved November 9, 2022) immature in knowledge or judgment; naïve; .raw; green; As young greens, English speakers have used green as a mature synonym for green since at least the 16th century and as a descriptive term for inexperienced or naïve people since the 19th century. (In contrast, more experienced green colored our tongue long before the 12th century and was first applied to inexperienced people in the 16th century.) Green comes from the Old French word for “green”, green, which itself comes from the Latin virÄre, which means “to show green growth” or “to be green”. Today, green is used in English as a word for green forest vegetation and green heraldic color. A related word is virescent and means “to start being green.” Its verdant valleys surrounded by mountains, dotted with huts and colorful temples, are ideal for hikers or those looking for a remedy for screen-weary eyes. It was a typical suburban apartment with a green lawn and many flowering shrubs. covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; than green fields; A green lawn Like the swallow, it left behind a ruined ruin in search of cleaner air and a greener world.

A man`s last sighs weave the luminous crown of a flower or stretch across the green meadow like a smile. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “green”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. The thoughts continued rhythmically, in the regular, flashing movement through green England. Nestled in the verdant woods of the Chattahoochee National Forest, this road really comes alive in October, when the fall colors are at their peak. If you imagine the habitat of a dinosaur as you would see it in Jurassic Park, a warm, humid place with green greenery might come to mind. What better way to celebrate spring than with a green bowl of budding goodness? Nglish: Translation of green for Spanish speakers Here`s a tip to internalize the meaning of green: If you speak Spanish, think of verde – which means “green”. If you speak French, think green. French and Spanish inherited their words for green from Latin, where green is viridis. Green can also mean grass color: “She wore a green dress.” When something is green with plants, it`s green, a word often used to idealize the landscape with its green pastures or green hills. Trees can often appear as little more than green wallpaper, a blurry green background for people`s comings and goings.

By extending the vegetal area to the vertical areas of an urban space, you can make a lot of visual greenery to your advantage, I have a green environment even if it is tiny. This double chamber design can hold 162 liters of organic matter to give you green soil in just 10 to 12 weeks. Etymology: [F. verdoyant, p. pr. de verdoyer être verdoyant, faire pousse vert, OF. verdoier, verdeier, fr. verd, vert, vert, fr. L.

viridis vert, fr. virere être vert: cf. OF. verdoyant verdoyant, L. viridans, p. pr. de viridare pour faire vert. Cf.

Farthingale, Verjuice, Vert.] The workshop had disappeared under the green arbor, while in one corner a beautiful tree stood like a fairytale dream. Verdant is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 2.5 miles west-southwest of Calipatria, at an elevation of 197 feet below sea level. vė#x117;r′dant, adj. green: fresh (like grass or foliage): flowering: inexperienced: ignorant.—n. Ver′dancy.—adv. Ver′dantly.—ns. Ver′derer, -or, an officer in the old English royal woods who was responsible for the green (q.v.); Ver′dūre, Grün: Freshness of growth. – V.T. to cover with green.

— Adjs. Ver′dūred; Ver′dūreless; Ver′dūrous. [Fr. verdoyant – L. viridans, -antis, pr.p. From viridāre, grow green – viridis, green – virēre, be green.] Etymology: From verdoyant, from the verb verdier, verdoier, from green, from *, from viridis. i.e. Verdant Magazine, Verdant Living and Verdant Power promote sustainability and green living Note: The Latin viridis and virÄre have been associated with the Lithuanian visti “to multiply, to reproduce”, veisti “to reproduce, to raise” and the Old English wÄ`to `germinate, stem`, with the Old High German wisa `meadow`, although the semantic connections are vague enough to make this a very weak hypothesis.

contracted from the Verdant Middle French, from the present participle of verdoyer “to be green, to become green”, back to the Old French verdoier, from verd, green “green” (goes back to the Latin viridis, from a base *we-, hence “to show green growth, to be green” of uncertain origin) + -oier, fractional verbal suffix that goes back to the Latin -idiÄre, Originally, the different pronunciation (or spelling) of -izÄre represented -ize.