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English
Etymology
Shortening.
Pronunciation
Noun
grat (plural grats)
- (slang) A gratuity or tip.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin grātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grat (feminine grata, masculine plural grats, feminine plural grates)
- (of a sensation) nice, pleasant
Derived terms
Noun
grat m (plural grats)
- taste, preference
- Synonym: gust
- no és del meu grat ― it's not to my taste
Further reading
- “grat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
- “grat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “grat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “grat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Verb
grat
- supine of graś
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian grāt, which derives from Proto-Germanic *grautaz. Cognates include West Frisian grut.
Adjective
grat (comparative grater, superlative gratst) (Föhr-Amrum)
- big, great, large.
- tall
Hü grat beest?- How tall are you?
Inflection
Inflection of grat (Föhr-Amrum dialect)
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masculine
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feminine /
neuter
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plural
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| indefinite
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definite
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| positive
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| predicative / adverbial
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grat
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| attributive
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graten
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grat
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grat
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| independent
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graten
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| partitive
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grats
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| comparative
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| predicative / adverbial
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grater
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| attributive
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grateren
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grater
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grater
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| independent
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grateren
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| partitive
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graters
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| superlative
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| predicative / adverbial
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am gratsten
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| attributive
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gratst
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gratst
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| independent
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gratsten
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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle High German geræte (“equipment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
grat m animal
- (informal, derogatory) piece of junk; useless or broken item
- Synonyms: rupieć, złom
- (informal, derogatory) clunker, decrepit car
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gruchot
- (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl, usually in the plural) gear, equipment
- Synonyms: sprzęt, manele
Declension
Further reading
- grat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- grat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Saloni (1908) “grat”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334
Scots
Verb
grat
- simple past tense of greet