Greene

[green]

noun

1. Graham, 1904–91, English novelist and journalist.

2. Nathanael, 1742–86, American Revolutionary general.

3. Robert, 1558–92, English dramatist and poet.

Greene

/ ɡriːn /

noun

1. Graham. 1904–91, English novelist and dramatist; his works include the novels Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair (1951), and Our Man in Havana (1958), and the film script The Third Man (1949)

2. Robert. ?1558–92, English poet, dramatist, and prose writer, noted for his autobiographical tract A Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance (1592), which contains an attack on Shakespeare

Example Sentences

His first decade was spent as a beat cop in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene.

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Ms. Greene never attempted that but succeeded in becoming a household name by saying outlandish things.

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Rumours have already begun circulating that Greene, 51, might run for president in 2028, which she immediately shot down.

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Ms. Greene is, in every sense, a singular politician, mercifully neither imitated nor imitable.

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It’s tempting to dismiss the abrupt retirement of Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress as the end of an odd, cranky political career.

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