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gren

gren is the obsolete spelling of grin.

Meaning of grin

Verb

grin (third-person singular simple present grins, present participle grinning, simple past and past participle grinned)

  1. (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
    • Why do you grin? Did I say something funny?
  2. (transitive) To express by grinning.
    • She grinned pleasure at his embarrassment.
  3. (dated, intransitive) To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
    • The pangs of death do make him grin.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  4. (transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.
    • He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.

See all 6 meanings of grin

Forms of gren

third-person singular presentgrens
present participlegrenning
past participlegrenned
pastgrenned

Phrases with gren

Questions about gren

What is gren the obsolete spelling of?
Gren is the obsolete spelling of grin.

Words near gren in the dictionary

  1. Gremore
  2. Gremores
  3. gremoulata
  4. gremoulatas
  5. grems
  6. gren
  7. Gren.
  8. Grenaa
  9. grenache
  10. grenaches
  11. Grenada

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gren (page history and authors); grin (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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