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grass roots

grass roots noun: people and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.

Noun

grass roots (uncountable)

  1. People and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.
  2. The essential foundation or source of something.

grass roots meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

grass roots in Hindi

grass roots
तृणमूल tŕṇmūl

grass roots in Tamil

புல்வேர்

grass roots in Kannada

ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜನತೆ, ಜನಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರು, ಮತದಾರರು, ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಜನತೆ, ಕೆಳಸ್ತರ ಜನರ ಬೆಂಬಲದ ಆಧಾರ, ತೃಣಮೂಲ

grass roots in Indonesian

local (most basic) level
akar rumput
More languagesFewer languages
grass roots in Thai
รากหญ้า râak-yâa

Questions about grass roots

What does grass roots mean?
Grass roots means people and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.
What is grass roots in Hindi?
Grass roots in Hindi is तृणमूल (tŕṇmūl). See Grass roots meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is grass roots?
Grass roots is a noun.

Words near grass roots in the dictionary

  1. grass rakes
  2. grass rat
  3. grass rats
  4. grass rooter
  5. grass rooters
  6. grass roots
  7. grass script
  8. grass seed
  9. grass seeds
  10. grass shrimp
  11. grass sickness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grass roots (page history and authors); तृणमूल (Hindi) (page history and authors); grass roots (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grass roots (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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