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Green primarily refers to the color green. It is also used, as a single term, to refer to many different people, places and things, some of which are listed below.
[edit] Politics and History
[edit] Places
- The Green Drawing Room, a room in Buckingham Palace in London, United Kingdom
- Green Park, a park next to Buckingham Palace
- The Green Library at Stanford University
- Putting green, an area of well-manicured grass surrounding each hole on a golf course
- Village green, an area of grassy common land forming part of a town or village
- Green room, a place off a stage or studio where performers wait until it is their turn to go on stage
- Green (lunar crater), on the Moon
- Green River, several rivers in the US and Canada
- Green, Oregon, a community
- Green County, Kentucky
- Green County, Wisconsin
[edit] People
- For a list of people with the name Green, see Green (name). For those named Greene, see Greene.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Green, denoting the extent to which an environment or landscape is covered with plants and vegetation (e.g. "Although parts of Hong Kong are densely populated, it is also one of the most green cities in Asia").
- Green, the name given to the substance created by a failed attempt by the character Lord Percy Percy to produce gold using alchemy in an episode of the British comedy series Blackadder II
- Green, used as slang for "inexperienced",
- Green, used as slang for money (commonly for the American dollar bill because of its color)
- Green, used as slang for "horny"
- Green, used in the past as a derogatory term for an individual of Irish descent (see Irish people)
- Green, in ceramics, referring to clay when it has achieved a state of 'leather hardness' and is still workable, but not bendable
- Green Chemistry, a term referring to not being toxic or environmentally damaging
- H. L. Green, formerly a chain of stores
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