grout
/ɡɹaʊt/
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Canada/ɡɹʌut/
grout noun: a thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
Noun
grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)
Verb
grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)
- To insert mortar between tiles.
- I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
- * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27
- To affix with mortar.
- The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
Proper noun capitalized: Grout
Grout (plural Grouts)
- A surname.
grout meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
grout in Tamil
- காரை, மென்சாந்து, புரை அடைப்பான், கூழேற்றம்
grout in Indonesian
- mortar used between tiles
- nat
Forms of grout
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | grouts |
| alternative form | grewt |
| alternative form | groute |
| alternative form | grut |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grouts |
| present participle | grouting |
| past participle | grouted |
| past | grouted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Grouts |
Origin of grout
From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
English surname, from the noun grout.
Words formed from grout
Phrases with grout
Words that rhyme with grout
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- set about
- shout
- sprout
- doubt
- umlaut
- fill out
- pout
- devout
- drought
- gout
- nowt
- redoubt
- throughout
- without
- ablaut
- dout
- flout
- lout
- mahout
- misdoubt
- mought
- prone out
- strout
- term out
- trout
- zoom out
- 'bout
- anlaut
- aspout
- asprout
- bluff out
- chout
- dought
- knout
- kraut
- layabout
- ne'er cast a clout till May be out
- owt
- peter out
- regrout
- sout
- when in doubt, do nowt
Questions about grout
- What does grout mean?
- Grout means a thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
- What is grout in Tamil?
- Grout in Tamil is காரை, மென்சாந்து, புரை அடைப்பான். See Grout meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grout?
- Grout can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce grout?
- Grout is pronounced /ɡɹaʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grout?
- The plural of grout is grouts.
Words near grout in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grout (page history and authors); Grout (page history and authors); grout (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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