gross
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English gross (“whole, entire", also "flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stour”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), from Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with French dialectal grôt, groût (Berry, “large”), and grô (Burgundy, “large”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great. More at great.
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- Rhymes: -əʊs
Adjective [edit]
gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)
- Disgusting.
- Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure. — 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
- Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful
- a gross mistake
- gross injustice
- gross negligence
- the whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
- Dull.
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- See also Wikisaurus:obese
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Noun [edit]
gross (plural gross or grosses)
- Twelve dozen = 144.
- The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
- The bulk, the mass, the masses.
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Verb [edit]
gross (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)
- To earn money, not including expenses.
- The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
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- IPA: /ɡrɔs/
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Old High German
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English adjectives
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- en:Units of measure
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