gro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrəʊ/
• 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

From French gros (“big, fat, thick”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾo/

gro

1. fat.

   Antonym: mæg

2. thick.

   Synonym: épé (of liquids)

   Antonyms: étrwa, fin, léjé, mins

3. important.

   Synonym: importan

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀo/, [ɡʀoː]
  • Rhymes: -oː

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

1. grey

From Old Norse gróa.

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. (of plants and body hair): to grow

   Graset gror godt i denne varmen.

   The grass is growing well in this heat.

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

   Ta plaster på såret til det gror.

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

• inngrodd
• mosegrodd

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

1. 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): /ɡrɔ/
• 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

• pȕno, mnȍgo, dȍsta

• “gro” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From English grow.

gro

1. To grow.

From Old Norse gróa. Cognate with English grow.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

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.

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

gro m pl (singulative gröyn)

1. gravel, pebbles