Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
- adjective Green in hue.
- adjective Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Green; fresh; covered with growing plants or grass: as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
- Green in knowledge; simple by reason of inexperience; inexperienced; unsophisticated; raw; green.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing
- adjective colloq. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Green incolour . - adjective
Abundant inverdure ; lush with vegetation. - adjective
Fresh . - adjective A
Symbol ofEnvironmentalism . - adjective
Inexperienced .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by abundance of verdure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The scenery is luxuriant because San Pancho is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains, covered in verdant foliage.
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The scenery is luxuriant because San Pancho is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains, covered in verdant foliage.
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Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake."
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Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake."
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Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake."
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A listener named Ross reports that he has observed the use of the word verdant as a sort of formal synonym to "green" or "environmentally responsible."
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For its entire existence in English verdant has meant the green of plants.
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The idea that fresh foliage as an analogy to lack of sophistication was applied by the early 1800s to the word verdant as well and then in 1853 an author named Edward Bradley, writing under the pen name Cuthbert Bede used both words to name the chief character in his book An Oxford Freshman.
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While the word verdant came to English directly from Latin in the late 1500s,
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To me the word verdant brings images of lush vegetation.
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victoriapl commented on the word verdant
green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass
December 1, 2007
dgstone commented on the word verdant
I only wish to expand on the connotation that this word carries for me. I use it to refer to a vegetative landscape in a light spring or summer shower. The plants look gorgeous and lush because the the central vacuole is swollen with water.
March 14, 2008