grass
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the…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.
» Let's sit here on the grass.
Setzen wir uns hier aufs Gras! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Давайте сядем здесь на траву. — Balamax
Сядьмо тут на траві. — deniko
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12 senses(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
(countable)Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable)A lawn.
Rasen
газо́нgazón, лужа́йкаlužájka
(uncountable)The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
(slang, uncountable)Marijuana.
Gras
тра́вкаtrávka
street names for marijuana
(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
(uncountable)Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(slang, uncountable)Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
(countable, uncountable)The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
(countable)Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
(countable)The surface of a mine.
(countable, figuratively, obsolete)That which is transitory.
Examples
545 sentencesLet's sit here on the grass.
Сядьмо тут на траві. — deniko
ruДавайте сядем здесь на траву. — Balamax
deSetzen wir uns hier aufs Gras! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I sometimes lie on the grass.
Я іноді лежу на траві. — deniko
ruЯ иногда лежу на траве. — marafon
He is lying on the grass.
Він лежить на траві. — deniko
ruОн лежит на траве. — Wezel
deEr liegt auf dem Rasen. — wolfgangth
They were lying on the grass.
Вони лежали на траві. — deniko
ruОни лежали на лужайке. — sharptoothed
deSie lagen auf der Wiese. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
She laid herself on the grass.
Вона лягла на траву. — iskra
ruОна легла на траву. — Balamax
deSie legte sich auf das Gras. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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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: grassesSynonyms
108 synonyms- German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927):Gunter GrassGunter Wilhelm Grass
- street names for marijuana:potgreen goddessdopeweedgagesesssenssmoke
- a police informer who implicates many people:supergrass
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle:eatageforagepasturepasturage
Word family
319 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
5 patterns- on the grass
- in the grass
- off the grass
- the grass and
- eat grass
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.