GREED

avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia

(noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

greed

(noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

greed (countable and uncountable, plural greeds)

A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity, gluttony, Thesaurus:greed

Verb

greed (third-person singular simple present greeds, present participle greeding, simple past and past participle greeded)

To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.

Anagrams

• degre, dereg, edger, erged

Source: Wiktionary


Greed, n. Etym: [Akin to Goth. grdus hunger, Icel. graedhr. sq. root34. See Greedy.]

Definition: An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

GREE

Gree, n. Etym: [F. gré. See Grateful, and cf. Agree.]

1. Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. [Obs.] Chaucer. Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke. Fairfax.

2. Rank; degree; position. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. He is a shepherd great in gree. Spnser.

3. The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

Gree, v. i. Etym: [From Agree.]

Definition: To agree. [Obs.] Fuller.

Gree, n.; pl. Grees (grez); obs. plurals Greece (gres) Grice (grs or grs), Grise, Grize (grz or grz), etc. Etym: [OF. gré, F. grade. See Grade.]

Definition: A step.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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