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- [see green]
- /si grin/
- /siː ɡriːn/
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- [see green]
- /si grin/
Definitions of sea-green word
- noun sea-green a clear, light, bluish green. 1
- colour sea-green Something that is sea-green is a bluish-green colour like the colour of the sea. 0
- noun sea-green a bluish green colour 0
- adjective sea-green bluish-green 0
- noun sea-green a moderate green colour, sometimes with a bluish or yellowish tinge 0
- noun sea-green (as adjective) 0
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Origin of sea-green
First appearance:
before 1590 One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Sea-green
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sea-green popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 43% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 66% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
Synonyms for sea-green
noun sea-green
- aquamarine — Aquamarines are clear, greenish-blue stones, sometimes used to make jewellery.
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
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