grass roots
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the essential foundation or source
the problem was attacked at the grass roots
Types & categories
- foundation hypernym
Sense 2 noun
the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
Types & categories
- folk hypernym
Related & opposite
- plural domain usage
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | foundation |
| 2 | domain usage | Related & opposite | plural |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | folk |