grass

CEFRA1

/ɡɹɑːs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Green plants with narrow leaves that cover fields and lawns.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Examples

  • She was lying face downwards on the grass.

  • The cows were moving very slowly through the long green grass.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ɡɹ̠as]
  • [ɡɹ̠eəs]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  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. The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".

  3. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

More examples

In context

  • Kyoko is lying on the grass.

  • What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

  • The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

Synonyms

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After the rain, the blank in the backyard grew very quickly.

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Origin

noun

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 short...