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bowling-green

bowl·ing-green
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [boh-ling green]
    • /ˈboʊ lɪŋ grin/
    • /ˈbəʊ.lɪŋ ɡriːn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [boh-ling green]
    • /ˈboʊ lɪŋ grin/

Definitions of bowling-green word

  • noun bowling-green a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5). 1
  • noun bowling-green Alternative spelling of bowling green. 0
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Origin of bowling-green

First appearance:

before 1640
One of the 44% oldest English words
First recorded in 1640-50

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Parts of speech for Bowling-green

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Bowling-green

bowling-green popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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