grass

1. 1.

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

   Broadergramineous plant

   Narrowerbeach grassbunchgrassmidgrassshortgrasssword grasstallgrasslemongrassgoat grasswheatgrassbent
2. 2.

   German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

   SynonymsGunter GrassGunter Wilhelm Grass

   Broaderwriter
3. 3.

   a police informer who implicates many people

   Synonymssupergrass

   Broaderinformer

   United Kingdom

4. 4.

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

   Synonymseatageforagepasturepasturage

   Broaderfodder
5. 5.

   street names for marijuana

   Synonymspotgreen goddessdopeweedgagesesssenssmokeskunklocoweedMary Jane

   Broader

Other forms of grass

plural

grasses·

past tense

grassed·

present participle

grassing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grass

What does grass mean?

grass means "shoot down, of birds". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grass?

grass has 1 syllable: grass. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹæs/.

What is another word for grass?

Close synonyms include grass over, denounce, tell on, betray, give away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grass a common word?

grass is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with grass?

4 words rhyme with grass. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.