greenness vs verdure what difference
what is difference between greenness and verdure
English
Etymology
From Old English grennes, equivalent to green + -ness.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹiːnnəs/
Noun
greenness (usually uncountable, plural greennesses)
- The state or quality of being green; green colour. [from 8th c.]
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- (now rare) Vitality, freshness. [from 9th c.]
- Inexperience. [from 16th c.]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 152:
- The chances were that, sooner or later, such greenness would inevitably lead to a graver disaster.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 152:
- The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation. [from 1980s]
Translations
Anagrams
- Negrenses, sengreens
English
Etymology
From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜːd͡ʒə/, /ˈvɜːdjə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɝd͡ʒɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
- Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: ver‧dure
Noun
verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)
- The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck’d my verdure out on’t.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
- The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
- To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.
Related terms
- verdant
- verdurous
Translations
Verb
verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)
- (transitive) To cover with verdure.
Derived terms
- reverdure
Dutch
Verb
verdure
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verduren
French
Etymology
vert + -ure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛʁ.dyʁ/
- Rhymes: -yʁ
Noun
verdure f (plural verdures)
- verdure, greenness
Further reading
- “verdure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /verˈdu.re/
- Rhymes: -ure
Noun
verdure f pl
- plural of verdura
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