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Added 9 October 2026

grass

/ɡɹɑːs/ noun

Categories: PlantsPeopleEveryday Words

In Latin: herba, grāmen Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about grass at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay.
  2. German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927).
  3. A police informer who implicates many people.

verb

  1. Shoot down, of birds.
  2. Cover with grass.
    The owners decided to grass their property
  3. Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach.

Origin

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”).

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