GRASS ROOTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grass roots mean? 

• GRASS ROOTS (noun)
  The noun GRASS ROOTS has 2 senses:

1. the essential foundation or source

2. the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

  Familiarity information: GRASS ROOTS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRASS ROOTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The essential foundation or source

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the problem was attacked at the grass roots

Hypernyms ("grass roots" is a kind of...):

foundation (the basis on which something is grounded)

Sense 2

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)