Definition for Grass roots:

• the essential foundation or source; " the problem was attacked at the grass roots"

Synonyms for Grass roots:

• adj.

  •fundamental (adjective)
  • elementary,
  • crucial,
  • cardinal,
  • elemental,
  • essential,
  • key,
  • organic,
  • bottom,
  • primary,
  • constitutional,
  • necessary,
  • constitutive,
  • major,
  • significant,
  • underived,
  • underlying,
  • requisite,
  • original,
  • axiomatic,
  • prime,
  • principal,
  • central,
  • first,
  • theoretical,
  • integral,
  • basal,
  • radical,
  • primitive,
  • intrinsic,
  • vital,
  • paramount,
  • supporting,
  • indispensable,
  • primordial.

• n.

  •country (noun)
  • native land,
  • constituents,
  • land,
  • populace,
  • people,
  • polity,
  • inhabitants,
  • society,
  • electors,
  • soil,
  • state,
  • commonwealth,
  • community,
  • realm,
  • voters,
  • kingdom,
  • public,
  • citizens.
  •grass roots (noun)
  • rank and file,
  • the masses,
  • working people,
  • Middle America,
  • hoi polloi,
  • wage-earners,
  • middle class,
  • proletariat,
  • laboring class.
  •rank and file (noun)
  • forces,
  • majority,
  • common soldiery,
  • common sort,
  • plebeians,
  • ranks,
  • common run.
  •working class (noun)
  • prole,
  • workpeople,
  • unskilled laborers,
  • workers,
  • unskilled laborer,
  • Workfolk,
  • working-class,
  • other half,
  • the other half,
  • working stiffs,
  • factory laborers,
  • working stiff,
  • common laborer,
  • factory laborer,
  • wage-earner,
  • proles,
  • blue-collar workers.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • axiological,
  • rudimentary,
  • structural,
  • Sustaining,
  • foundational,
  • bottom-line,
  • meat-and-potatoes,
  • substratal,
  • substrative,
  • grass-roots.
  •n.
  • citizenry,
  • common people,
  • country,
  • folk,
  • folks,
  • foundation,
  • grass roots,
  • homeland,
  • region,
  • terrain,
  • working class,
  • Patria,
  • realms,
  • peoples,
  • citizenries,
  • sovereign state.

Hyponym for Grass roots:

• n.

  • group
    folks, common people, folk.
  • linkdef
    foundation.