trass

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word trass. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word trass, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say trass in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word trass you have here. The definition of the word trass will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftrass, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch tras or German Trass, probably from Italian terrazzo (“terrace”). See terrace.

Pronunciation

Noun

trass (countable and uncountable, plural trasses)

  1. (geology) A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement.
  2. A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German tratz, tras.

Noun

trass m or n (definite singular trassen or trasset, uncountable)

  1. defiance, obstinacy

Derived terms

Preposition

trass

  1. in spite of

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Presumably from German trotz.

Pronunciation

Noun

trass m or n (definite singular trassen or trasset, uncountable)

  1. spite, stubbornness, contrariness, defiance
    Han gjorde det på trass.
    He did it out of spite.

Derived terms

Preposition

trass

  1. despite

See also

References

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia