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grasse

grasse is the obsolete form of grass.

Meaning of grass

Noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

  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.
    • Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men. / For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp. /...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 90:3–6
  2. (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  3. (uncountable) A lawn.
  4. (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
  5. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
    • Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass1970, Paul McCartney, “Get Back”, in Let It Be, performed by The Beatles
  6. (UK, countable, slang) An informer; snitch, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
    • What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

See all 21 meanings of grass

Proper noun capitalized: Grasse

Grasse (countable and uncountable, plural Grasses)

  1. A commune and town in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
  2. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Pays de Grasse.
  3. (countable) A habitational surname from French.

Forms of grasse

Noun
pluralgrasses
Proper noun
pluralGrasses

Origin of grasse

Borrowed from French Grasse.

Phrases with grasse

Questions about grasse

What does grasse mean?
Grasse means a commune and town in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
What is grasse the obsolete form of?
Grasse is the obsolete form of grass.
What part of speech is grasse?
Grasse is a proper noun.

Words near grasse in the dictionary

  1. grasscycle
  2. grasscycled
  3. grasscycles
  4. grasscycling
  5. Grassdale
  6. grasse
  7. grasseater
  8. grasseaters
  9. grassed
  10. grassed on
  11. grassed up

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