'grass roots' definitions:
Definition of 'grass roots'
(from WordNet)
noun
The essential foundation or source; "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"
noun
The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
Synonyms of 'grass roots'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- beginning,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- commencement,
- conception,
- corn belt,
- cotton belt,
- countryside,
- derivation,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- genesis,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- head,
- highlands,
- inception,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- origin,
- original,
- origination,
- plains,
- prairies,
- provenience,
- province,
- provinces,
- radical,
- radix,
- rise,
- root,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- source,
- stem,
- steppes,
- stock,
- taproot,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom