English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)
"Greene wrote many famous novels during his lifetime as an English novelist and Catholic."
Obsolete spelling of green
"The ancient manuscript was filled with greene leaves that had long since turned brown."
In plain English: Greene means green, referring to the color of grass and leaves.
"The trees turned greener after the spring rain."
A surname, from Middle English, a variant of Green.
"The Greene family has lived in the village since the seventeenth century."