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Definition of Grass roots
1. Noun. The essential foundation or source. "The problem was attacked at the grass roots"
2. Noun. The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity).
Definition of Grass roots
1. Noun. (idiomatic) People and society at the local level rather than at the national centre of political activity ¹
2. Noun. The essential foundation or source of something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Grass roots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"NATIVE PRAIRIE grass roots, TIMOTHY ROOTS AND THE ROOT GROWTH OF GRASSES COMPARED.
In Fig. 5 are shown three samples of grass roots taken from old meadows. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"4 Hedgehogs live principally on fallen fruits, grass, roots, and insects, there
is nothing wonderful that a few of them should be found in a luxuriant ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"PLANT LICE INFESTING grass roots. HERBERT OSBORN AND FA SIRRINE. During the fall
of 1889 the senior author of this paper determined that a species of plant ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... grass roots, since partial recovery has taken place at Woburn where the roots
of grassed trees have extended laterally beyond the borders of the grass. ..."
5. The United Nations System: The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"Growing transformation in the participation of the grass roots in world affairs
... A new world system, with far greater participation from the grass roots, ..."
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