"大草原" meaning in Japanese

See 大草原 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [da̠iso̞ːɡẽ̞ɴ] Forms: 大草原 [canonical] (ruby: (だい), (そう), (げん)), daisōgen [romanization]
Etymology: Of 大(だい) (dai, “great”) + 草(そう)原(げん) (sōgen, “grassland”). The Internet slang use developed as an exaggeration of 草(くさ) (kusa, “LOL”, literally “grass”), which in turn developed from ww (ww) used to indicate laughter in online texts. Etymology templates: {{ja-compound|大|だい|草%原|そう%げん|t1=great|t2=grassland}} 大(だい) (dai, “great”) + 草(そう)原(げん) (sōgen, “grassland”), {{ja-r|草|くさ|LOL|lit=grass}} 草(くさ) (kusa, “LOL”, literally “grass”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|だいそうげん}} 大(だい)草(そう)原(げん) • (daisōgen)
  1. grassland, prairie, savanna Synonyms: 草原, 草地, サバンナ, プレーリー, ステップ
    Sense id: en-大草原-ja-noun-PErljPdd
  2. (Internet slang) LOL, LMAO; used to indicate amusement or laughter Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-大草原-ja-noun-b9bWQHOr Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 3 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 5 95 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 7 93 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 3 kanji: 14 86 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: (kusa) (ruby: (くさ)) (english: LOL), 草生える (kusa haeru) (ruby: (くさ), ()) (english: laugh; be funny)
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