grounds

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹaʊndz/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndz
• Hyphenation: grounds

grounds

1. plural of ground

grounds

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ground

From ground (“basis, surroundings”).

grounds (plural grounds)

1. (law) Basis or justification for something.

   grounds for divorce

2. 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.

• grounds officer
• groundskeeper
• stomping grounds

From ground, past participle of to grind.

grounds pl (plural only)

1. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.

   coffee grounds

• dog runs