Definitions for grass
grɑsgrass

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grassnoun

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

2. Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grassnoun

   German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

3. supergrass, grassnoun

   a police informer who implicates many people

4. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassnoun

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

5. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Janeverb

   street names for marijuana

6. grassverb

   shoot down, of birds

7. grassverb

   cover with grass

   "The owners decided to grass their property"

8. grassverb

   spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

9. grass, grass oververb

   cover with grass

10. grassverb

    feed with grass

11. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

    give away information about somebody

    "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grassnoun

   Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

2. grassnoun

   A lawn.

3. grassnoun

   Marijuana.

4. grassnoun

   An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

5. grassnoun

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

6. grassnoun

   Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

7. grassverb

   To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

8. grassverb

   To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

9. Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin, Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. GRASSnoun

   The common herbage of the field on which cattle feed; an herb with long narrow leaves.

   Etymology: græs, Saxon.

   Ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls. Jer. l. 11.

   The trade of beef for foreign exportation was prejudiced, and almost sunk; for the flesh being young, and only grass fed, was thin, light and moist, and not of a substance to endure the salt, or be preserved by it, for long voyages, or a slow consumption. William Temple.

   You’ll be no more your former you;
   But for a blooming nymph will pass,
   Just fifteen, coming Summer’s grass. Jonathan Swift.

2. To Grassverb

   To breed grass; to become pasture.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Land arable, driven, or worn to the proof,
   With oats ye may sow it, the sooner to grass,
   More soon to be pasture, to bring it to pass. Thomas Tusser, Husband.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Grassnoun

   popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture

2. Grassnoun

   an endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single

3. Grassnoun

   the season of fresh grass; spring

4. Grassnoun

   metaphorically used for what is transitory

5. Grassverb

   to cover with grass or with turf

6. Grassverb

   to expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc

7. Grassverb

   to bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish

8. Grassverb

   to produce grass

9. Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Grass

   Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the family Poaceae, as well as the sedges and the rushes. The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns and grassland. Sedges include many wild marsh and grassland plants, and some cultivated ones such as water chestnut and papyrus sedge. Uses for graminoids include food, drink, pasture for livestock, thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Grass

   gras, n. common herbage: an order of plants (Gramineæ), the most important in the whole vegetable kingdom, with long, narrow leaves and tubular stem, including wheat, rye, oats, rice, millet, and all those which supply food for nearly all graminivorous animals: short for asparagus—sparrow-grass: time of grass, spring or summer: the surface of a mine.—v.t. to cover with grass: to feed with grass: to bring to the grass or ground, as a bird or a fish—(various perennial fodder grasses are timothy, fox-tail, cock's-foot, and the fescue grasses, Italian rye-grass, &c.).—ns. Grass′-Cloth, a name applied to different kinds of coarse cloth, the fibre of which is rarely that of a grass, esp. to the Chinese summer-cloth made from Bœhmeria nivea, which is really a nettle; Grass′-cut′ter, one of the attendants on an Indian army, whose work is to provide provender for the baggage-cattle; Grass′er, an extra or temporary worker in a printing-office.—adjs. Grass′-green, green with grass: green as grass; Grass′-grown, grown over with grass.—ns. Grass′hopper, a saltatorial, orthopterous insect, nearly allied to locusts and crickets, keeping quiet during the day among vegetation, but noisy at night; Grass′iness; Grass′ing, the exposing of linen in fields to air and light for bleaching purposes; Grass′-land, permanent pasture; Grass′-oil, a name under which several volatile oils derived from widely different plants are grouped; Grass′-plot, a plot of grassy ground; Grass′-tree, a genus of Australian plants, with shrubby stems, tufts of long wiry foliage at the summit, and a tall flower-stalk, with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers; Grass′-wid′ow, a wife temporarily separated from her husband, often also a divorced woman, or one deserted by her husband; Grass′-wrack, the eel-grass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.—adj. Grass′y, covered with or resembling grass, green.—Go to grass, to be turned out to pasture, esp. of a horse too old to work: to go into retirement, to rusticate: to fall violently (of a pugilist); Let the grass grow under one's feet, to loiter, linger.—Spanish grass (see Esparto). [A.S. gærs, græs; Ice., Ger., Dut., and Goth. gras; prob. allied to green and grow.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grass

   A term applied to vegetables in general. (See FEED OF GRASS.)

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grassnoun

   See marijuana. "But I smoke 'em like grass, just like Cheech and Chong" -- Dr. Dre (Keep Their Heads Ringin')

2. grassnoun

   Someone who informs the police.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grass

   A type of cultivar, plant and seed.

   There are thousands of plants that are classified as grass.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2016  

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1. grass

   The grass symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the grass symbol and its characteristic.

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Fodder
   • Gramineous Plant
   • Graze
   • Informer
   • Shoot
   • Spread Out
   • Writer

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2580

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1948

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Nouns Frequency: #1024

How to pronounce grass?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

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   Fred

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   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grass in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of grass in a Sentence

1. Mats Wilander:

   He obviously loves to play on grass, it looks so natural to him, playing on grass is going to help him a lot.

2. California Gov. Jerry Brown:

   We're in a new era; the idea of your nice little green grass getting water every day, that's going to be a thing of the past.

3. Assyrian Proverb:

   The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

4. David Yerushalmi:

   We do not intend to allow any grass to grow under this ruling.

5. Grigor Dimitrov:

   I was a bit rusty obviously and need to brush up on a few things and come back and get a bit better, i just want to play as many matches as possible on grass. It's a tough field here and you have to be on the edge every single round.

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