Verdure

Definitions: Verdure

Verdure

Noun

1. Green foliage.

2. Lush greenness of flourishing vegetation.

Date "verdure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Verdure \Ver"dure\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression viridis green. See Verdant.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Verdure

Synonyms: greenery (n), greenness (n), verdancy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vegetable	Noun: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Verdure

English words defined with "verdure": Emerald Isle ♦ Greenth ♦ Reverdure ♦ Verdured, Verdureless, Verdurous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "verdure": Chloe ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Orchard ♦ Woods. (references)

Etymologies containing "verdure": Biliverdin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Verdure" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (greenery, greenness, verdancy, verdure), Italian (vegetables).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Escale de verdure (1961)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cahier de verdure (reference) Claire Theatre de Verdure (reference) Verdure of the forest (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A tunnel of verdure; N.E. on New Hampshire Ave., from Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.		Fête Nationale Belge. Concert de gala. Organisé au Théatre de verdure des Tuileries ...Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Jane Austen	To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Verdure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Verdure" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "verdure".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Shuthelah	N/A	Biblical	Verdure
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Language		Translations for "verdure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjelbërim (dress, green, greenery, greenness, herbage, verdancy, viridity), gjallëri (activity, alacrity, alertness, animation, brio, briskness, dynamism, ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, mercuriality, pep, pepper, sprightliness, verve, vitality, vivacity, volatility, zest), blerim. (various references)

Arabic		‏نضرة, ‏عافية (good health, health), ‏خضرة النبات. (various references)

Bulgarian		свежест (bloom, crispness, dew, fairness, flush, fresh, freshness, newness), младост (adolescence, juvenescence, juvenility, springtime, youth), зеленина (greenery, greens, herbage, vegetation, verdancy, viridity), злак, листак (leafage). (various references)

Czech		zeleò (green, greenery, greenness, verdancy, viridity). (various references)

Danish		grønne områder mellem boligblokke (greenery between buildings, verdure between buildings). (various references)

Dutch		kijkgroen tussen de flats (greenery between buildings, verdure between buildings). (various references)

Finnish		vihreys (greenness), vihannuus (green). (various references)

French		verdure (verdancy). (various references)

German		Kraft (ability, agency, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, dint, employee, energy, faculty, force, forth, fortitude, heft, help, impetus, measurement for load, mechanical force, might, on, power, puissance, strength, through, torque, vigor, vigour, with, worker), Grün (ecologist, fresh, green, greenery, greenness, leafy, tart, verdant, wet). (various references)

Greek		πρασινάδα (green, greenery, greensward, lawn, viridity), χλόη (grass, lawn, sward, turf), χλοερότησ (verdancy), χλοερότητα (verdancy). (various references)

Hungarian		zöld szín (green, verdancy). (various references)

Italian		verdura (green, greenery, greens, vegetable), verde (fresh, green, greenness, wet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� 色 (emerald green). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいしょく (emerald green, erosion, fading beauty, fading color). (various references)

Manx		oorid (crispness, freshness, newness, rawness), glasseraght (grassiness, herbage, vegetation), geaynid (bile, greenness, vert), geaynaght, eayney (green). (various references)

Pig Latin		erdurevay

Portuguese		verdura (garfish, green, greenery, greenpeak, verdancy, viridity), verdor (green, greenness, verdancy, viridity), vegetação (plant cover, vegetation), folhagem (foliage, green, greenery, leaf, leaflet, umbrage), cor verde. (various references)

Romanian		verdeaţã (green stuff, greenery, greengrocery, greenness, greens, sward), verde (green, hearty, new, spades, unripe, verdant), tinereţe (adolescence, childhood, girlhood, heyday, juvenescence, juvenility, may, youth, youthfulness). (various references)

Russian		зелень (garden-stuff, green meat, green scum, green vegetables, greenery, greengrocery, greenness, greens, pot-herb, verdancy, viridity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zelenilo (green, greenery, greenness, verdancy, viridity), bujnost (ampleness, exuberance, exuberancy, luxuriance). (various references)

Spanish		verdura (greenness, vegetables). (various references)

Swedish		grönska (be green, greenery, greenness). (various references)

Turkish		yeşillik (foliage, green, greenery, greens, greenstuff, herbage, leafage, mead, potherb, soilage, verdancy, viridity), tazelik (bloom, crispness, dew, freshness, greenness, sweetness, verdancy, viridity, youth), otlar, çayır (grass, grassland, hayfield, herbage, mead, meadow, pasture, prairie). (various references)

Ukranian		свіжість (coolness, dew, freshness, originality, sweetness, viridity), зелень (green, greenery, greengrocery, greenness, verdancy, viridity). (various references)

Vietnamese		nhiệt tình của tuổi trẻ bức thảm có nhiều hình hoa lá, m� u xanh tươi của cây cỏ, lòng hăng hái (animation, zeal). (various references)

Welsh		gwyrddni (greenness), gwyrddlesni, glesni (blueness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	viror, virore, virorum. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	verdure. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "verdure": verdured, verdures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Verdure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vedure, vendure, Verdiger, Verdine, verdite, verdor, verdue, verture, virture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "verdure" (pronounced 'Ver"dure'): Bordure, Discardure, Ordure, Procedure, Rejoindure, Reverdure, Rondure, Roundure, supersedure. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-r-r-u-v"
	-2 letters: erred, revue, ruder.
	-3 letters: deer, dere, dree, dure, durr, ever, rede, reed, rude, rued, ruer, veer.
	-4 letters: dee, dev, due, ere, err, eve, red, ree, rev, rue, urd, vee.
	-5 letters: de, ed, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-r-r-u-v"
	+1 letter: devourer, overrude, recurved, verdured, verdures.
	+2 letters: devourers, overcured, overruled, overtured, overurged.
	+3 letters: adventurer, everduring, overburden, overburned, overruffed, overturned, resurveyed, undercover, unreserved.
	+4 letters: adventurers, overburdens, overinsured, overproduce, overtrumped, underserved, unrecovered, untraversed.
	+5 letters: boulevardier, overburdened, overpersuade, overproduced, overproduces, peradventure, reproductive, unreservedly.
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