Word: grassroots
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: grass
roots
Definition: Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc; of the grass roots.
Morphemes:
Affix: grass
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A lawn; a field of cultivated and mowed grass
Affix: root
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.