lush
 I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a green/wooded/lush valley (=one with a lot of plants or trees growing in it)
▪ We were on a ridge above a green valley, with the mountains beyond it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 NOUN
garden
▪ The hotel is 650 feet above the sea, set in lush gardens of flowers, palms and orange trees.
▪ Brown said he saw Adam and Eve in a remote-viewing session, but they were not naked primitives in a lush garden.
▪ Within its lush gardens just 100 yards from the beach, is a superb new swimming pool.
▪ The newly-built swimming pool is situated in lush gardens and deep palm groves which are part of the charm of this resort.
▪ There are winding streets, museums, half-timbered houses and lush gardens of figs, mulberries, sweet chestnuts and vines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ lush fabrics
▪ a lush garden
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, we need a long, warm, unbroken growing season to provide a plentiful diet of lush herbage.
▪ It was green, lush and luxuriant, ringed by the mountains with snowy peaks.
▪ Mist ferns daily with plastic spray bottle to keep them green and lush.
▪ Similarly, Colescott paints big, lush narrative acrylics on canvas, hard-hitting narrative works that travel across time and history.
▪ The famous walls and ramparts of the city, now surround lush lawns and leafy trees.
▪ They have lush stands of elm trees and will require minimal leveling.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ What are you drinking, you big lush?
▪ You'll see her sitting at the bar all day. She's a real lush.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It sketches the usual story of Meurent, the model who dabbled in painting, who was a lush and promiscuous.
▪ See, the dude is a lush and we give him time to get mellow.
▪ This lush, seething insularity-what am I supposed to be learning, what are the lessons here?
▪ This is a film to make you feel fabulous about being a lush.
lush
I. lush1 /lʌʃ/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Origin : Perhaps from Old French lache 'soft, loose']
1. plants that are lush grow many leaves and look healthy and strong:
▪ a lush green mountainous island
▪ The fields were lush with grass and flowers.
2. very beautiful, comfortable, and expensive SYN luxurious:
▪ lush carpets
3. lush music has a lot of pleasant-sounding instruments or voices together:
▪ lush vocal harmonies
4. informal very attractive or nice – used especially by young people:
▪ He looks so lush in this pic!
II. lush2 noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1700-1800; Origin : Perhaps from ⇨ lush1]
informal an alcoholic
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