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GROUNDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The enclosed land around a house or other building
Example:
it was a small house with almost no yard
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("grounds" is a kind of...):
field (a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grounds"):
backyard (the grounds in back of a house)
dooryard (a yard outside the front or rear door of a house)
front yard (the yard in front of a house; between the house and the street)
garden (a yard or lawn adjoining a house)
playground (yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play)
side yard (the grounds at either side of a house)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
Example:
the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling
Synonyms:
evidence; grounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grounds" is a kind of...):
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grounds"):
probable cause ((law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure)
cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)
disproof; falsification; refutation (any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something)
lead; track; trail (evidence pointing to a possible solution)
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
sign ((medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A justification for something existing or happening
Example:
they had good reason to rejoice
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grounds" is a kind of...):
justification (a statement in explanation of some action or belief)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("grounds" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
Example:
it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("grounds" is a kind of...):
dregs; settlings (sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grounds"):
coffee grounds (the dregs remaining after brewing coffee)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb ground
Context examples:
When I took the road again next morning, I found that it lay through a succession of hop-grounds and orchards.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Those are the only people that you would find within the grounds of Yoxley Old Place.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went as far as the Crystal Palace, spent an hour in the grounds, and was back in Norbury by one o’clock.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am content to implore in such a case, not on personal grounds, but for the sake of others.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“I heard of a man, once, who invaded the nesting grounds of wild geese,” Maud said. “They killed him.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its own grounds.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only think what grand things were produced there by our all going with him one hot day in August to drive about the grounds, and see his genius take fire.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Nay; it must not be within the grounds of the court, or it may go hard with all concerned if it come to the ears of the prince.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Very good,” said my uncle, and, raising his hat, he led the way into the grounds.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
