English Explanatory Dictionary

grass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  2. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  3. A lawn.
  4. The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
  5. Marijuana.
  6. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  7. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  8. Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  9. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
  10. That which is transitory.
  11. Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
  12. The surface of a mine.
verb
  1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
  3. To cover with grass or with turf.
  4. To feed with grass.
  5. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  6. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
name
  1. A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Spencer County, Indiana, United States, named after pioneer settler Daniel Grass.

Pronunciation

gräs /ɡɹɑːs/ [ɡɹ̠ɑːs] [ɡɹ̠äːs] [ɡɹ̠ɐːs] En-uk-grass.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-grass.wav grăs /ɡɹæs/ [ɡɹ̠æs] [ɡɹ̠ɛəs] [ɡɹ̠eəs] en-us-grass.ogg [ɡɹ̠as] [ɡɹ̠äs]

Word forms

grass grasses grassing grassed Grassie

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *grasą Proto-West Germanic *gras Old English græs Middle English gras English grass Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). Cognates Cognate with Scots gress (“grass”), North Frisian gaars, geers, Gērs, gjars, gjas, gäärs (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Cimbrian gras, grass (“grass”), German and Luxembourgish Gras (“grass, weed”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), Mòcheno and Vilamovian gros (“grass”), West Flemish ges (“grass”), Yiddish גראָז (groz, “grass”), Danish græs (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gras, gress (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras, “herb”); also Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green. The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.

Synonyms

grass bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce djamba doja doobage dope endo gage ganja ganj green greenery hash hashish hemp herb Mary Jane MJ marihoochie marijuana Mary Joanna method mezz muggle mull pot puff reefer sens sensimillia sensimilla shit sweetleaf tea Texas tea trees twig wacky tobaccy weed yarndie zaza zombie abaddon accuser beefer bewrayer bigmouth blabber blabtale

Related words

Poaceae Poaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived words

above grass adder's grass after-grass aftergrass Aleppo grass alfa grass alkali grass all cows eat grass Angleton grass annual meadow grass Antarctic hair grass arrowgrass ass in the grass autograss Bahama grass bahia grass bahiagrass bamboo grass barnyard grass basketgrass beachgrass beardgrass beargrass beetle grass bentgrass bent grass Bermuda grass billion-dollar grass bison grass blackgrass black oat grass blade of grass blind grass blue-eyed grass blue grass bluegrass bluejoint reed grass bluestem grass bristlegrass broadleaf carpet grass bromegrass buffalo grass bunchgrass bunch grass bunny grass burgrass bushman grass button grass California grass canary grass canegrass carnation-grass carpet grass centipede grass cheatgrass cheat grass Chilcotts Grass China grass Christmas grass citronella grass
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