'Groundling' definitions:
Definition of 'groundling'
(from WordNet)
noun
In Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
Definition of 'Groundling'
From: GCIDE
- Groundling \Ground"ling\, n. [Ground + -ling.]
- 1. (Zool.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. [1913 Webster]
- No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'groundling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamite,
- arriviste,
- attender,
- audience,
- auditory,
- Babbitt,
- being,
- body,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- cad,
- cat,
- chap,
- character,
- churl,
- claqueur,
- clown,
- congregation,
- creature,
- customer,
- deadhead,
- duck,
- earthling,
- epicier,
- fellow,
- gallery,
- guttersnipe,
- guy,
- hand,
- head,
- hired applauder,
- homo,
- hooligan,
- house,
- human,
- human being,
- ill-bred fellow,
- individual,
- joker,
- life,
- living soul,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- man,
- mortal,
- moviegoer,
- mucker,
- nose,
- nouveau riche,
- one,
- orchestra,
- party,
- parvenu,
- pass holder,
- peasant,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- Philistine,
- pit,
- playgoer,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- single,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- spectator,
- standee,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- theater,
- theatergoer,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- worldling,
- yokel