grot
UK/ɡɹɒt/US/ɡɹɑt/
grot noun: a grotto.
Noun (1)
grot (plural grots)
- A grotto.
- She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Those of Luxembourg and Rohan even falsified their genealogies for that purpose; and the house of Sassenage, though it might claim its descent from a monarch, preferred Melusinc, and to gratify them it was feigned that when she quitted Lusignan she retired to the grot of Sassenage, in Dauphiny.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 299
Noun (2)
grot (countable and uncountable, plural grots)
- Any unpleasant substance or material.
- A miserable person.
grot meaning in Tamil
grot in Tamil
- குகை
Forms of grot
| plural | grots |
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Origin of grot
From grotto, by shortening, or French grotte.
Back-formation from grotty.
Words formed from grot
Words that rhyme with grot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about grot
- What does grot mean?
- Grot means a grotto.
- What is grot in Tamil?
- Grot in Tamil is குகை. See Grot meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grot?
- Grot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce grot?
- Grot is pronounced /ɡɹɑt/ (US).
- What is the plural of grot?
- The plural of grot is grots.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grot (page history and authors); grot (Tamil 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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