Thesaurus results for GROUNDS

grounds 1 of 2

noun

plural of ground

as in park

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

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as in sediment

matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid strain the coffee to remove the grounds

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as in reason

something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing evicted the tenants on the grounds that they violated the lease

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grounds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ground

as in predicates

to find a basis you're grounding your entire case on circumstantial evidence

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Recent Examples of grounds

Noun

However, reservations are now available for special tours of the castle grounds, starting in October 2026 until April 2027. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The Nathan Hale Homestead has had reports of ghosts roaming its grounds and in the house at night. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026 The stately main house, built in 2009 and designed by Gacek Design Group, looks much like a traditional Pennsylvania country estate, with a stone exterior, slate roof, dormer windows, and landscaped grounds. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026 The heaviest rain from Nolo is likely to fall over the same southeastern region of the Big Island that was hit by Lala and where grounds are still wet from additional precipitation. — Eugene Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 Trump banned the outlets from accessing any of the White House grounds, citing their negative coverage of the administration. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026 After the president banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, Vanity Fair hit the White House grounds for some battlefield reporting. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026 Journalists from the three organizations were barred from White House grounds on Saturday. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026 It was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane on airport grounds, where German police safely defused the device. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026

Verb

Luke grounds Emma, but ultimately, Emma grounds herself, through purpose and family. — Katie Walsh, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026 Ross feels the farming life grounds him and wishes others could experience it. — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026 This grounds recommendations in actual customer behavior rather than model guesswork. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026 Musk grounds the scent in something sultry, while pink peppercorns give it a somewhat forward nuance. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026 The early pages of The Waves are liquid with green light, the garden or grounds a place of languor and surprise, sudden kisses, bright animal eyes, solitary daydream and jealousy. — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026 This shift grounds me in my value and elevates my networking skills instantly. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Book any balloon flight for the first morning of your stay, and if weather grounds it, that leaves some possibility of being moved to a subsequent day. — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026 Transportation was also the leading cause of fatal injuries among truck drivers, fishing and hunting workers, refuse collectors and grounds maintenance workers. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grounds

Noun

Dining, shopping, and a park are all within walking distance.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Crow-Armstrong’s 27 homers at Wrigley trail only Schwarber (28) for the most hit in a player’s home park this season.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of park

Noun

The alternation of the two types of sediments suggests that debris from the broken walls was sliding down while pyroclastic material was still accumulating.

— Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Spanning parts of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, the area is best known for its rolling green hills, shaped over thousands of years by windblown sediment called loess.

— Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of sediment

Noun

That gives Qatar a powerful reason to keep talks moving between Tehran and Washington.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Dozens of people have accused Combs of playing games with their lives, sometimes for self-serving business reasons, other times for his own amusement.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of reason

Noun

Keeping data onsite DiagFit also supports on-premises deployment, giving customers an alternative to sending operational information into cloud infrastructure.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
The Partner-Centric Cloud Advantage Integrators can leverage multitenant cloud platforms to eliminate on-premises server overhead and centralize multisite administration.

— Robert Messer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of premises

Noun

Tatsuo Enami, President and CEO of Gigaphoton, pointed out that reliable thin-film deposition has broad industrial value.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Kosowski allegedly confronted Cozzi in the law office bathroom months earlier, on a break during a tense deposition for the civil case.

— Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of deposition

Verb

This makes Kansas one of the few states that bases the requirement on payroll dollars rather than employee count.

— Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Currently, the Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the CPI-W, or the index for urban wage earners, from July through September.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026