grounds
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grounds
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grounds
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ground
Etymology 2 edit
From ground (“basis, surroundings”).
Noun edit
grounds (plural grounds)
- (law) Basis or justification for something.
- grounds for divorce
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
- the castle grounds
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
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basis or justification for something
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area of land
Etymology 3 edit
From ground, past participle of to grind.
Noun edit
grounds pl (plural only)
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sediment at the bottom of a liquid
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