grounds
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹaʊndz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊndz
- Hyphenation: grounds
Noun
grounds
- plural of ground
Verb
grounds
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ground
Etymology 2
From ground (“basis, surroundings”).
Noun
grounds (plural grounds)
- (law) Basis or justification for something.
- grounds for divorce
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
- the castle grounds
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
Derived terms
- groundskeeper
- stomping grounds
Translations
basis of an action
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area of land
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Etymology 3
From ground, past participle of to grind.
Noun
grounds pl (plural only)
- The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
- coffee grounds
Translations
sediment at the bottom of a liquid
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Anagrams
- dog runs