Meaning

12 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

    Gras, gras, chrud

    трава́travá, мурава́muravá

    трава́travá, мурава́muravá, морі́гmoríh

  2. (countable)Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

  3. (uncountable)A lawn.

    Rasen

    газо́нgazón, лужа́йкаlužájka

  4. (uncountable)The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".

  5. (slang, uncountable)Marijuana.

    Gras

    тра́вкаtrávka

    street names for marijuana

  6. (UK, countable, slang)An informer; snitch, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

    What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

    Spitzel

    стука́чstukáč, стука́чкаstukáčka

    a police informer who implicates many people

  7. (uncountable)Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

  8. (slang, uncountable)Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

  9. (countable, uncountable)The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

  10. (countable)Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".

  11. (countable)The surface of a mine.

  12. (countable, figuratively, obsolete)That which is transitory.

Examples

545 sentences
  1. Let's sit here on the grass.

    Сядьмо тут на траві.

    ruДавайте сядем здесь на траву.

    deSetzen wir uns hier aufs Gras!

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  2. I sometimes lie on the grass.

    Я іноді лежу на траві.

    ruЯ иногда лежу на траве.

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  3. He is lying on the grass.

    Він лежить на траві.

    ruОн лежит на траве.

    deEr liegt auf dem Rasen.

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  4. They were lying on the grass.

    Вони лежали на траві.

    ruОни лежали на лужайке.

    deSie lagen auf der Wiese.

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  5. She laid herself on the grass.

    Вона лягла на траву.

    ruОна легла на траву.

    deSie legte sich auf das Gras.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ground cover plant:
Русский
By meaning 4
ground cover plant:
lawn — see also lawn:
marijuana:
informer:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
ground cover plant:
lawn — see also lawn:
informer:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras,

Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

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Forms

plural: grasses
Singulargrass
Pluralgrasses

regular

Synonyms

112 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

324 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • on the grass
  • in the grass
  • off the grass
  • the grass and
  • eat grass

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grass — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto