Word.ws English Dictionary

bowling green

bowling green noun: a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.

Noun

bowling green (plural bowling greens)

  1. A finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.

Proper noun capitalized: Bowling Green

Bowling Green

  1. A city in Hardee County, Florida.
  2. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Indiana.
  3. A home rule city, the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky.
    • “BG fiestaval here is to bring the community together, to make sure that this part of town, the west side of Bowling Green, is recognized as what we are, an important part of this community.” Parra said.2026 May 11, Joahan Lopez, “BG Fiestaval returns for 10th year after nearly being canceled”, in WBKO, archived from the original on 13 May 2026
  4. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland.
  5. A city, the county seat of Pike County, Missouri.
  6. A city, the county seat of Wood County, Ohio.
  7. An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
  8. An incorporated town, the county seat of Caroline County, Virginia.
  9. A hamlet in Callington parish, eastern Cornwall (OS grid ref SX3670).
  10. A hamlet near Bugle, Treverbyn parish, north of St Austell, Cornwall (OS grid ref SX0258).
  11. A hamlet in Lymington and Pennington parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2996).
  12. A hamlet north of Peplow, Hodnet parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6225).
  13. A village in Powick parish, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8151).

Forms of bowling green

pluralbowling greens
alternative formbowling-green

Words formed from bowling green

  • as smooth as a bowling green
  • smooth as a bowling green

Questions about bowling green

What does bowling green mean?
Bowling green means a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.
What part of speech is bowling green?
Bowling green can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bowling green?
The plural of bowling green is bowling greens.

Words near bowling green in the dictionary

  1. bowling club
  2. bowling clubs
  3. bowling crease
  4. bowling creases
  5. bowling figures
  6. bowling green
  7. bowling greens
  8. bowling out
  9. bowling over
  10. bowling shirt
  11. bowling shirts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bowling green (page history and authors); Bowling Green (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bowling green.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bowling_green. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.