bleen
/bliːn/
bleen adjective: of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.
Adjective
bleen (not comparable)
bleen meaning in Bengali and Persian
bleen in Bengali
- কোনো বস্তুর ক্ষেত্রে
bleen in Persian
- of an object blue that is first blue, then green
- و آبز
Origin of bleen
Blend of blue + green; coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science
Words that rhyme with bleen
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about bleen
- What does bleen mean?
- Bleen means of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.
- What is bleen in Bengali?
- Bleen in Bengali is কোনো বস্তুর ক্ষেত্রে. See Bleen meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is bleen?
- Bleen is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bleen?
- Bleen is pronounced /bliːn/.
Words near bleen in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleen (page history and authors); bleen (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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