foundation vs grass roots

grass roots vs foundation

foundation and grass roots both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foundation	Yes	No	No	No
grass roots	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, grass roots is a hyponym of foundation; that is, grass roots is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than foundation:

foundation: the basis on which something is grounded
grass roots: the essential foundation or source

Other hyponyms of foundation include basis, footing, ground.

foundation (noun)	grass roots (noun)
the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new	the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
lowest support of a structure	the essential foundation or source
a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
an institution supported by an endowment
the basis on which something is grounded

Difference between foundation and grass roots

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