Definitions for grit
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grit, gritrock, gritstonenoun

   a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

2. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionverb

   fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

3. gritverb

   cover with a grit

   "grit roads"

4. gritverb

   clench together

   "grit one's teeth"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gritnoun

   A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing).

2. Gritadjective

   Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.

3. Etymology: With early modern vowel shortening, from grete, griet, from greot, from greutan (compare German Grieß, Swedish gryta), from gʰr-eu-d- (compare Lithuanian gruodas ‘frost; frozen street dirt’, Serbo-Croatian grȕda ‘lump’).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRITnoun

   Etymology: grytta, greot, Saxon.

   1. The coarse part of meal.2. Oats husked, or coarsely ground.3. Sand; rough hard particles.

   Silesian bole, crackling a little betwixt the teeth, yet without the least particle of grit, feels as smooth as Castile soap. Nehemiah Grew, Musæum.

   The sturdy pear-tree here
   Will rise luxuriant, and with toughest root
   Pierce the obstructing grit and restive marle. Phillips.

   4.Grits are fossils found in minute masses, forming together a kind of powder; the several particles of which are of no determinate shape, but seem the rudely broken fragments of larger masses; not to be dissolved or disunited by water, but retaining their figure, and not cohering into a mass. They are opake, and in many species fermenting with acids, and often fouled with heterogene matters. One sort is a fine, dull looking, grey grit, which, if wetted with salt-water into mortar or paste, dries almost immediately, and coalesces into a hard stony mass, such as is not easily afterwards disunited by water. This is the pulvis puteolanus of the ancients, mixed among their cements used in buildings sunk into the sea; and in France and Italy an ingredient in their harder plaisters, under the name of pozzolane. It is common on the sides of hills in Italy. Another species, which is a coarse, beautifully green, dull grit, is the chrysocolla of the ancients, which they used in soldering gold, long supposed a lost fossil. It serves the purpose of soldering metals better than borax, and may be had for carriage from the shores of New England. The ferrugineous black glittering grit, is the black shining sand employed to throw over writing, found on the shores of Italy. What is commonly used in London is from Genoa. The coarse, glittering, brownish black is nearly of the same nature, but inferior, in all respects. John Hill on Fossils.

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1. grit

   Grit is a personality trait characterized by perseverance, passion, and resilience. It refers to an individual's ability to persist in challenging circumstances, maintain motivation over the long-term for difficult tasks, and overcome obstacles or setbacks. This trait is often associated with determination, tenacity, and a focus on achieving a particular goal, regardless of difficulties or delays in achieving it.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gritnoun

   sand or gravel; rough, hard particles

2. Gritnoun

   the coarse part of meal

3. Gritnoun

   grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats

4. Gritnoun

   a hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit

5. Gritnoun

   structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit

6. Gritnoun

   firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude

7. Gritverb

   to give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind

8. Gritverb

   to grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth

9. Etymology: [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. gret grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grjt, and to E. groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf. Grail gravel.]

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1. Grit

   Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural US during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle America's Greatest Family Newspaper. In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 population.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grit

   grit, n. the coarse part of meal: gravel: a kind of hard sandstone: firmness of character, spirit: (pl.) oats coarsely ground, groats.—ns. Grit′stone; Grit′tiness.—adj. Grit′ty, having hard particles: sandy: determined, plucky. [A.S. greót; Dut. grut, groats, Ger. gries, gravel.]

2. Grit

   grit, a Scotch form of great.

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1. GRIT

   What does GRIT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GRIT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRIT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grit is ranked #129825 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Grit surname appeared 131 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Grit.
   
   93.1% or 122 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Clench
   • Coat

Anagrams for grit »

1. girt

2. trig

How to pronounce grit?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say grit in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grit in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of grit in a Sentence

1. Nikki Bollerman:

   And what is a life lesson I tell you about grit? it means to work hard and never give up.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   I used my mama's grit to get through commuter college and law school.

3. Staff Sgt. Clint Romesha:

   I said I need a group of volunteers. Five guys who did not even know what the plan was and did not know what I was about to ask stood up with pure grit and determination and said they would follow me anywhere. I told them the counterattack plan.

4. Phil Schrieber:

   His [Kaiden's] persistence and grit and determination to catch the fish is what made me so proud of him, and then seeing the smile on his face was just absolutely priceless.

5. Javier Palomarez:

   I think Donald Trump will bring that same grit, that same drive, to Donald Trump policy agenda and get a lot of what Donald Trump plans done, donald Trump may not do it the way others would, but by God he gets it done.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grit
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grit
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=grit
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grit
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=grit
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=grit
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html