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grass roots

Main Entry:
grass roots
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ordinary people
Synonyms: Middle America, common people, hoi polloi, laboring class, middle class, proletariat, rank and file, the masses, wage-earners, working class, working people
Main Entry: rank and file
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: general public
Synonyms: common run, common soldiery, common sort, forces, grass roots, majority, plebeians, proletariat, ranks
Main Entry: working class
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: common laborers
Synonyms: blue-collar workers, common laborer, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat, rank and file, the other half, unskilled laborer, unskilled laborers, wage-earners, workers, workfolk, working people, working stiff, working stiffs, workpeople
Main Entry: fundamental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, important
Synonyms: axiological, axiomatic, basal, bottom, bottom-line, cardinal, central, constitutional, constitutive, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, grass-roots, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, key, major, meat-and-potatoes, necessary, organic, original, paramount, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, requisite, rudimentary, significant, structural, substratal, substrative, supporting, sustaining, theoretical, underived, underlying, vital
Antonyms: additional, advanced, auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant
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Main Entry: country
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
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Adjectives:
agrestic, arcadian, bucolic, country, georgic, pastoral, poimenic, rural, rurigenous, rustic, rusticated, villatic
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