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GRASS ROOTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("grass roots" is a kind of...):
common people; folk; folks (people in general (often used in the plural))
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The essential foundation or source
Example:
the problem was attacked at the grass roots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("grass roots" is a kind of...):
foundation (the basis on which something is grounded)
