grat

Shortening.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

grat (plural grats)

1. (slang) A gratuity or tip.

• autograt

• Targ, gart

From Latin grātus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾat]

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grat (feminine grata, masculine plural grats, feminine plural grates)

1. (of a sensation) nice, pleasant

• gratament
• malgrat

grat m (plural grats)

1. taste, preference

   Synonym: gust

   no és del meu grat ― it's not to my taste

• “grat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “grat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “grat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/

grat

1. supine of graś

• gråt (Goesharde)
• grot (Halligen)
• groot (Heligoland)
• grut (Mooring)
• gurt (Sylt)

From Old Frisian grāt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”). Cognates include West Frisian grut.

grat (comparative grater, superlative gratst) (Föhr-Amrum)

1. big, great, large.
2. tall

   Hü grat beest?

   How tall are you?

Borrowed from Middle High German geræte (“equipment”).

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• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: grat
• Homophones: grad, Grad

grat m animal

1. (informal, derogatory) piece of junk; useless or broken item

   Synonyms: rupieć, złom

2. (informal, derogatory) clunker, decrepit car

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gruchot

3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl, usually in the plural) gear, equipment

   Synonyms: sprzęt, manele

• grat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Saloni (1908), “grat”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎^[1] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334

grat

1. simple past tense of greet

From Dutch graad. Displaced by darajat.

grat

1. (obsolete) degree
   • 1930, “Elmoe Palak”, in Volksalmanak Soenda XII, Bale Poestaka, Panonpoë, Boelan, djeung Bentang, page 363:

     Tah saoepama kitoe, teu kalawan dibedjaan koe batoer oge, oedjoeg-oedjoeg njaho bae, jen bentang-bentang teh oenggal heuleut 24 djam, sok ngeser sagrat (1°) ka koelon.

     [Tah saupama kitu, teu kalawan dibéjaan ku batur ogé, ujug-ujug nyaho baé, yén béntang-béntang téh unggal heuleut 24 jam, sok ngésér sagrat (1°) ka kulon.]

     So, without being told by anyone else, you would realize that for every 24 hours, the stars will shift one degree (1°) to the west.