ground

ground

noun

Definition of GROUND

grounds plthe area around and belonging to a building <an escorted tour of the White House and its surrounding grounds>

Synonyms demesne, park, premises (also premisses), yard

Related Words acres, estate, land, lot, parcel, plot, property, real estate, realty; campus; backyard, churchyard, dooryard, schoolyard; close, enclosure (also inclosure), garden, garth, plaza

grounds plmatter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid <strain the coffee to remove the grounds>

Synonyms deposition, dregs, grounds, precipitate, sediment, settlings

Related Words lees; ooze, silt, sludge; dross, slag, waste

grounds plsomething (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing <your dislike of her tattoos would be insufficient grounds for firing her>

Synonyms account, authority, grounds, motive, subject, wherefore, why

Related Words antecedent, cause, consideration, impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, occasion, stimulus

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a small area of usually open land <I'll meet you at the parade ground in two hours>

Synonyms clearing, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract

Related Words common(s), croft [chiefly British]; grass, green, greensward, lawn; glade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea (or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland

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an immaterial thing upon which something else rests <opposed to the notion that religious law should be used as a ground for civil law>

Synonyms basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp, warp and woof

Related Words anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, support; assumption, justification, premise (also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrant; backbone, center, core, cornerstone, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, keystone, nucleus, seat; essence, quintessence, soul, touchstone

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the loose surface material in which plants naturally grow <stuck the shovel in the ground and went inside for a glass of water>

Synonyms clod, earth, ground, mold, soil

Related Words blackland, clay, gault [chiefly British], gley, guck (or gook), gumbo, kaolin, muck, mud; dust, gravel, sand; humus, loam, topsoil; alluvium, colluvium, detritus, loess, marl, sediment, shingle, silt; duff, mull; subsoil, substratum

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the physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed <take her picture against a blue ground in order to bring out her blue eyes>

Synonyms backdrop, ground

Related Words mise-en-scène, scene, scenery, set, stage; entourage, environment, milieu, setting, surroundings

Near Antonyms foreground; center, focal point, focus, heart

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the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air <one of the Nordic creation myths states that the ground was formed by the body of the giant Ymir when he was killed by Odin and his brothers>

Synonyms dirt, dust, ground, land, soil, terra firma

Related Words continent, landmass, zone; island, isthmus, mainland, peninsula