Gross (surname)
Gross is a surname of German origin. The word means "big" or "tall" and was adopted in olden times as surname by people with such a physical stature. In Germany the name is usually spelled Groß which is the correct spelling of the adjective under the German orthographic rules.
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Famous quotes containing the word gross:
“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)