grounds
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹaʊndz/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: grounds
Etymology 1
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From ground (“basis, surroundings”)
Noun
grounds (plural grounds)
- (law) Basis or justification for something.
- grounds for divorce
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
- the castle grounds
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Translations
Noun
grounds pl (plural only)
- The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).
Translations
sediment at the bottom of a liquid
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