noun
Meaning 1
plural of ground
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
grounds
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɡɹaʊndz/
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Northumbria: /ɡɹʊndz/
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rhymes with -aʊndz
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CMU ARPABET: G R AW1 N D Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: G R AW1 N Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Basis or justification for something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Examples
- grounds for divorce
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the castle grounds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- coffee grounds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
third-person singular simple present indicative of ground
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the enclosed land around a house or other building
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was a small house with almost no yard
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yard, curtilage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: field
Narrower terms: backyard, dooryard, front yard, garden, playground, side yard
noun
Meaning 7
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: evidence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: information
Narrower terms: probable cause, proof, cogent evidence, disproof, falsification, refutation, lead, track, trail, symptom, sign
noun
Meaning 8
a justification for something existing or happening
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had no cause to complain
- they had good reason to rejoice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cause, reason
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: justification
noun
Meaning 9
a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
noun
Meaning 10
dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dregs, settlings
Narrower terms: coffee grounds
History
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From ground (“basis, surroundings”).
From ground, past participle of to grind.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: əsas — basis or justification for something
- Catalan: raó — basis or justification for something
- Catalan: causa — basis or justification for something
- Catalan: motiu — basis or justification for something
- Catalan: fundamento — basis or justification for something
- French: raison — basis or justification for something
- French: motif — basis or justification for something
- German: Grund — basis or justification for something
- German: Rechtfertigung — basis or justification for something
- Ido: kazuko — basis or justification for something
- Ido: motivo — basis or justification for something
- Ido: fundamento — basis or justification for something
- Māori: papa — basis or justification for something
- Māori: rawa — basis or justification for something
- Polish: podstawy — basis or justification for something
- Polish: uzasadnienie — basis or justification for something
- Russian: основа́ние (osnovánije) — basis or justification for something
- Russian: обоснова́ние (obosnovánije) — basis or justification for something
- Spanish: causal — basis or justification for something
- Spanish: fundamento — basis or justification for something
- Ukrainian: підста́ва (pidstáva) — basis or justification for something
- Ukrainian: обґрунтува́ння (obgruntuvánnja) — basis or justification for something
- Catalan: terreny — area of land
- Dutch: terrein — area of land
- Dutch: omgeving — area of land
- Finnish: tilus — area of land
- Ido: tereno — area of land
- Māori: papawhenua — area of land
- Polish: tereny — area of land
- Polish: ziemie — area of land
- Portuguese: terreno — area of land
- Spanish: terreno — area of land
- Catalan: marro — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- French: marc — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Galician: borra — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- German: Satz — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Greek: κατακάθι (katakáthi) — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Hungarian: üledék — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Irish: dríodar caife — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Navajo: bitłʼááshjání — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Polish: osad — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Polish: fusy — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Spanish: concho — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Spanish: poso — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Spanish: hez — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Ottoman Turkish: تلوه (telve) — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- Welsh: gwaddod — sediment at the bottom of a liquid
Real reading context