verdure

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English

Etymology

From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.

Pronunciation

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

  1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
    Synonyms: greenliness, greenth
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
      Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.
  2. (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

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Translations

Verb

verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)

  1. (transitive) To cover with verdure.

Derived terms

Dutch

Verb

verdure

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of verduren

French

Etymology

From vert (“green”) +‎ -ure (noun-forming suffix), or from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

verdure f (plural verdures)

  1. verdure, greenness

Descendants

  • → Romanian: verdură

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /verˈdu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: ver‧dù‧re

Noun

verdure f pl

  1. plural of verdura
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