different between leaves vs verdure

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?vz
• IPA^(key): /li?vz/

Noun

leaves

1. plural of leaf
2. plural of leave

Verb

leaves

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leave

Anagrams

• Veales, salvee, sleave, veales

English

Etymology

From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??d???/, /?v??dj?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?d???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??(?)
• Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: ver?dure

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare

     […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

     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.

   • 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.
2. (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

Related terms

• verdant
• verdurous

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

• reverdure

Dutch

Verb

verdure

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verduren

French

Etymology

vert +? -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.dy?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

verdure f (plural verdures)

1. verdure, greenness

Further reading

• “verdure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

verdure f pl

1. plural of verdura