sprout
/spɹaʊt/
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Canada/spɹʌʊt/
sprout noun: a new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
Noun
sprout (plural sprouts)
- A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- Near-synonyms: seedling, chit
- An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
- A bean sprout.
- A child.
- Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!
- A Brussels sprout.
- In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.
Verb
sprout (third-person singular simple present sprouts, present participle sprouting, simple past and past participle sprouted)
- To grow from seed; to germinate.
- The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.
- Synonyms:
- stock
- To cause to grow from a seed.
- I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.
- To deprive of sprouts.
- to sprout potatoes
- To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.
- To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.
- In those early years of the 1830s and 1840s, railways were sprouting up all over the country in a haphazard way.2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56
Proper noun capitalized: Sprout
Sprout (plural Sprouts)
- A surname.
sprout meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sprout in Hindi
- new growth on a plant
- अंकुर aṅkur, पल्लव pallav, पल्लवी pallavī
- to grow, to germinate
- उगना ugnā, बढ़ना baṛhnā, अंकुरण aṅkuraṇ
- to cause to grow from a seed
- अंकुरण aṅkuraṇ
- to emerge from the soil as sprouts
- अंकुरण aṅkuraṇ
sprout in Tamil
- to grow, to germinate
- முளை muḷai
sprout in Marathi
- new growth on a plant
- अंकुर aṅkur, मोड moḍ
- to grow, to germinate
- अंकुरणे aṅkurṇe, मोड येणे moḍ yeṇe
sprout in Urdu
- sprout
- کیل kail
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- sprout in Bengali
- অঙ্কুর oṅkur
- sprout in Telugu
- మొలక molaka, మొలకెత్తు molakettu, మొలిపించు molipiñcu
- sprout in Malayalam
- മുളയ്ക്കുക muḷaykkuka, കുരുക്കുക kurukkuka, കൊഴുന്ത് koḻuntŭ, പൊടിക്കുക poṭikkuka
- sprout in Kannada
- ಅಂಕುರಿಸು aṅkurisu
- sprout in Punjabi
- ਸੂਆ sūā
- sprout in Gujarati
- સ્પ્રાઉટ, અંકુરિત કરવા માટે, અંકુરણ કરવા માટે
- sprout in Odia
- ବଲ୍ଲରି ballari, ମଞ୍ଜି mañji
- sprout in Sanskrit
- रुध् rudh, रोधति ródhati, प्रवाल pravāla
- sprout in Assamese
- গজালি gozali, গজা goza
- sprout in Nepali
- उम्रनु umranu
- sprout in Arabic
- نَبْتَة nabta
- sprout in Indonesian
- tunas, anakan, bertunas
- sprout in Persian
- جوانه javâne
- sprout in Thai
- งอก ngɔ̂ɔk
Examples of sprout in a sentence
- The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
- From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria.
- The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
Synonyms of sprout
Forms of sprout
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sprouts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sprouts |
| present participle | sprouting |
| past participle | sprouted |
| past | sprouted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sprouts |
Origin of sprout
From Middle English sproute, either from Middle English sprouten (“to sprout”) (see below); or from Middle Dutch sprute or Middle Low German sprûte (“sprout”), all related to Proto-West Germanic *spreutan. Doublet of spruit.
From Middle English sprouten, spruten, from Old English sprūtan, from Proto-West Germanic *spreutan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną.
* As a Dutch surname, from spruit (“sprout, shoot”) * As an English and Scottish surname, spelling variant of Sprott
Words formed from sprout
Phrases with sprout
Words that rhyme with sprout
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- set about
- shout
- doubt
- umlaut
- fill out
- grout
- 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 sprout
- What does sprout mean?
- Sprout means a new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- What is sprout in Hindi?
- Sprout in Hindi is अंकुर (aṅkur), पल्लव (pallav), पल्लवी (pallavī). See Sprout meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sprout?
- Sprout can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sprout?
- Sprout is pronounced /spɹaʊt/ (US).
- What is the plural of sprout?
- The plural of sprout is sprouts.
Words near sprout in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sprout (page history and authors); Sprout (page history and authors); کیل (Urdu) (page history and authors); অঙ্কুর (Bengali) (page history and authors); കുരുക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅಂಕುರಿಸು (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਸੂਆ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); sprout (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ବଲ୍ଲରି (Odia) (page history and authors); प्रवाल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); उम्रनु (Nepali) (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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