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Recent Examples of groundling
Officials cleared dozens of barges from a river channel near Lake Providence, Louisiana, and dredged it after a groundling occurred Friday, halting river traffic in both directions for days.
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Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
Aimed straight at the groundlings, this rousing drinking song is pure silly fun, with Sir Toby Belch (Shuler Hensley) and the gang trading late-night insults.
—New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
His creations scared the crap out of groundlings and aristocrats alike, including the Queen of Denmark and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
—James Marcus, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
Those onstage, like Feste and Puck before them, mocked their patrons, played to the groundlings, but spoke honestly of broader uncertainties.
—Ian Malone, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2019
This collision of classes is an old promise of the theatre, all the way back to Shakespeare’s Globe, where the court and the groundlings watched the same actors perform the same play—while also watching each other.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2019
Goslings and ducklings are baby birds, but a groundling is an uncritical or unrefined person (too poor to pay for a seat in Renaissance theaters) and a changeling is a child exchanged by fairies, or any kind of replacement of inferior value.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
The section of the theater where the groundlings stand?
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 June 2017
Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
Aimed straight at the groundlings, this rousing drinking song is pure silly fun, with Sir Toby Belch (Shuler Hensley) and the gang trading late-night insults.
—New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
His creations scared the crap out of groundlings and aristocrats alike, including the Queen of Denmark and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
—James Marcus, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
Those onstage, like Feste and Puck before them, mocked their patrons, played to the groundlings, but spoke honestly of broader uncertainties.
—Ian Malone, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2019
This collision of classes is an old promise of the theatre, all the way back to Shakespeare’s Globe, where the court and the groundlings watched the same actors perform the same play—while also watching each other.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2019
Goslings and ducklings are baby birds, but a groundling is an uncritical or unrefined person (too poor to pay for a seat in Renaissance theaters) and a changeling is a child exchanged by fairies, or any kind of replacement of inferior value.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
The section of the theater where the groundlings stand?
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 June 2017
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“Groundling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundling. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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