'grounds' definitions:
Definition of 'grounds'
(from WordNet)
noun
Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling" [syn: evidence, grounds]
noun
The enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, grounds, curtilage]
noun
A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
noun
A justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" [syn: cause, reason, grounds]
noun
Dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue; "it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds"
Definition of 'grounds'
From: GCIDE
- Home \Home\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as: (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same as home base and home plate. (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Home base or Home plate (Baseball), the base at which the batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to be reached in scoring a run.
- Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.
- Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.]
- Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.
- Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule.
- Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.
- Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grounds'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- antecedents,
- artificial turf,
- ash,
- Astroturf,
- base,
- basement,
- basis,
- basis for belief,
- bearing wall,
- bed,
- bedding,
- bedrock,
- body of evidence,
- boundary condition,
- bowling green,
- call,
- catch,
- causation,
- cause,
- cause and effect,
- chain of evidence,
- chattels real,
- cinder,
- clause,
- clinker,
- clue,
- common,
- condition,
- data,
- datum,
- demesne,
- deposition,
- deposits,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- diluvium,
- documentation,
- domain,
- donnee,
- draff,
- dregs,
- dross,
- element,
- ember,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- etiology,
- evidence,
- exhibit,
- fact,
- factor,
- facts,
- fairway,
- feces,
- fine print,
- floor,
- flooring,
- fond,
- footing,
- foundation,
- froth,
- fundament,
- fundamental,
- given,
- golf course,
- golf links,
- good reason,
- grassplot,
- green,
- greenyard,
- ground,
- grounds for belief,
- groundwork,
- hardpan,
- honor,
- indication,
- item of evidence,
- joker,
- kicker,
- land,
- landed property,
- lands,
- lawn,
- lees,
- limiting condition,
- loess,
- lot,
- lots,
- manifestation,
- manor,
- mark,
- material basis,
- material grounds,
- messuage,
- moraine,
- muniments,
- mute witness,
- obligation,
- occasion,
- offscum,
- parameter,
- parcel,
- park,
- pavement,
- piece of evidence,
- plat,
- plot,
- praedium,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- premises,
- prerequisite,
- principle,
- proof,
- property,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- putting green,
- quadrat,
- radical,
- real estate,
- real property,
- realty,
- reason,
- reason to believe,
- relevant fact,
- requisite,
- right,
- riprap,
- rock bottom,
- rudiment,
- saving clause,
- scoria,
- scum,
- seat,
- sediment,
- settlings,
- sign,
- sill,
- silt,
- sine qua non,
- sinter,
- slag,
- small print,
- smut,
- solid ground,
- solid rock,
- soot,
- specification,
- stereobate,
- stimulus,
- stipulation,
- string,
- stylobate,
- sublimate,
- substance,
- substratum,
- substruction,
- substructure,
- symptom,
- tenements,
- terms,
- terra firma,
- toft,
- token,
- ultimatum,
- underbuilding,
- undercarriage,
- undergirding,
- underpinning,
- understruction,
- understructure,
- village green,
- warrant,
- whereas
Words containing 'grounds'
- Ground,
- Groundedly,
- Grounding,
- Groundly,
- Under ground,
- ground out,
- grounded,
- grounded on,
- or Ground,
- Ball Ground,
- Barren Grounds,
- Battle Ground,
- Battle Ground, IN,
- Broken ground,
- Brussels ground,
- Burial ground,
- Burying ground,
- Contour of ground,
- Dead ground,
- Ground angling,
- Ground annual,
- Ground ash,
- Ground bailiff,
- Ground bait,
- Ground base,
- Ground bass,
- Ground beetle,
- Ground chamber,
- Ground cherry,
- Ground cuckoo,
- Ground cypress,
- Ground dove,
- Ground fish,
- Ground floor,
- Ground form,
- Ground furze,
- Ground game,
- Ground glass,
- Ground hele,
- Ground hemlock,
- Ground hog,
- Ground hold,
- Ground ice,
- Ground ivy,
- Ground joint,
- Ground joist,
- Ground lark,
- Ground laurel,
- Ground line,
- Ground liverwort,
- Ground mail,
- Ground mass,
- Ground of the heavens,
- Ground parrakeet,
- Ground pearl,
- Ground pig,
- Ground pigeon,
- Ground pine,
- Ground plan,
- Ground plane,
- Ground plate,
- Ground plot,
- Ground plum,
- Ground rat,
- Ground rattlesnake,
- Ground rent,
- Ground robin,
- Ground roller,
- Ground room,
- Ground sea,
- Ground sill,
- Ground snake,
- Ground squirrel,
- Ground story,
- Ground substance,
- Ground swell,
- Ground table,
- Ground tackle,
- Ground thrush,
- Ground tier,
- Ground timbers,
- Ground tit,
- Ground warbler,
- Ground wheel,
- Ground wren,
- Hunting ground,
- On even ground,
- Stamping Ground,
- Teeing ground,
- Tenter ground,
- To bite the ground,
- To break ground,
- To come to the ground,
- To cover ground,
- To fall to the ground,
- To gain ground,
- To gather ground,
- To get ground,
- To give ground,
- To go to ground,
- To lose ground,
- To run into the ground,
- To take the ground,
- Vantage ground,
- anchorage ground,
- bed ground,
- break ground,
- breeding ground,
- camping ground,
- coffee grounds,
- common ground,
- crushed ground,
- gain ground,
- get off the ground,
- gill over the ground,
- give ground,
- ground almond,
- ground attack,
- ground ball,
- ground beef,
- ground beetles,
- ground cable,
- ground cedar,
- ground cloth,
- ground cock,
- ground control,
- ground cover,
- ground crew,
- ground effect,
- ground fir,
- ground fire,
- ground forces,
- ground level,
- ground loop,
- ground noise,
- ground pink,
- ground rattler,
- ground rose,
- ground rule,
- ground shark,
- ground sloth,
- ground state,
- ground stroke,
- ground thrushes,
- ground water,
- ground wave,
- ground zero,
- high ground,
- home ground,
- lose ground,
- middle ground,
- parade ground,
- parched ground,
- picnic ground,
- piece of ground,
- pleasure ground,
- plot of ground,
- proving ground,
- solid ground,
- stomping ground,
- testing ground,
- Aberdeen Proving Ground,
- Ball Ground, GA,
- Barren Ground bear,
- Barren Ground caribou,
- Battle Ground, WA,
- Brussels wire ground,
- Happy hunting grounds,
- Middle-ground,
- Stamping Ground, KY,
- The Dark and Bloody Ground,
- To stand one's ground,
- To take ground to the left,
- To take ground to the right,
- Winter-ground,
- air-to-ground,
- arctic ground squirrel,
- bed-ground,
- dark ground illumination,
- downy ground cherry,
- eastern ground snake,
- gill-over-the-ground,
- ground-berry,
- ground-floor,
- ground-hugging,
- ground-shaker,
- mantled ground squirrel,
- purple ground cherry,
- richardson ground squirrel,
- well-grounded,
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD,
- air-to-ground missile,
- ground-controlled approach,
- ground-effect machine,
- ground-emplaced mine,
- ground-service crew