gro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

Shortening of gross (adjective), perhaps via grody.

gro (comparative more gro, superlative most gro)

1. (US, slang) Disgusting, unpleasant; gross.

   Wash your hair! It's totally gro.

• grody

Shortening of gross (noun).

gro

1. The cardinal number occurring after el do el (↋↋) and before gro one (101) in a duodecimal system. Written 100, decimal value 144.

• mo

Shortening of grove.

gro

1. (UK, in street addresses) Abbreviation of grove.

• Org., Rog, org, org., rog

Inherited from French gros (“big, fat, thick; important”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾo/
• Rhymes: -o

gro m (feminine gròs)

1. big

   Synonym: gran

2. fat

   Antonym: mæg

3. thick

   Synonym: (of liquids) épé

   Antonyms: étrwa, fin, léjé, mins

4. important

   Synonym: importan

5. (of weather) bad, unfavorable

From Old High German grāo, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Cognate with German grau, English grey, Dutch grijs, Icelandic grár.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀo/,
  • Rhymes: -oː

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gro (masculine groen, neuter grot, comparative méi gro, superlative am groosten)

1. grey

From Old Norse gróa.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

gro (imperative gro, present tense gror, passive -, simple past grodde, past participle grodd, present participle groende)

1. to grow
2. to sprout, germinate

• inngrodd
• mosegrodd

• “gro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

From Old Norse gróa. Akin to English grow.

gro (present tense gror, past tense grodde, past participle grodd or grott, passive infinitive groast, present participle groande, imperative gro)

1. : to grow (of plants and body hair)

   Graset gror godt i denne varmen.

   The grass is growing well in this heat.

2. to sprout, germinate
3. : to heal (of cuts and sores)

   Ta plaster på såret til det gror.

   Put a band-aid on the sore until it heals.

• inngrodd
• mosegrodd

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krodu (“toad”) of origin unknown. Compare Swedish groda (with plural ending -or). Attested in Glossarium Norvagicum (1749), having masculine gender.

gro f (definite singular groa, indefinite plural grør, definite plural grørne)

1. (Trøndelag, Hedmark, Gudbrandsdal, Helgeland, Nordmøre) a toad

   Synonym: padde

• “gro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old High German grao, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Compare German grau, Dutch grauw, English gray, Icelandic grár, Swedish grå.

gro

1. gray, grey

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: gro

gro

1. vocative singular of gra

From French gros.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrôː/
• Hyphenation: gro

grȏ (Cyrillic spelling гро̑)

1. much, a lot

   Synonyms: pȕno, mnȍgo, dȍsta

• “gro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From English grow.

gro

1. To grow.

From Old Norse gróa. Cognate with English grow.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

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gro (present gror, preterite grodde, supine grott, imperative gro)

1. (intransitive) to sprout, germinate
2. (transitive) to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
3. (intransitive, figurative) take hold; increase; grow

• grogrund (“hotbed, seedbed”)

• grodd (“germ, sprout”)

• växa (“grow”)

• gro in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gro in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gro in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Brythonic *grọw, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā.

• IPA^(key): /ɡroː/
• Rhymes: -oː

gro m (collective, singulative gröyn)

1. gravel, pebbles

   Synonym: graean

• grobwll m (“gravel pit”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies