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Definition of Grounds
1. Noun. Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief. "The evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
Generic synonyms: Information
Specialized synonyms: Probable Cause, Cogent Evidence, Proof, Disproof, Falsification, Refutation, Lead, Track, Trail, Symptom, Sign
Derivative terms: Evidence, Evident, Evidential, Evidentiary
2. Noun. The enclosed land around a house or other building. "It was a small house with almost no yard"
Specialized synonyms: Backyard, Dooryard, Front Yard, Garden, Playground, Side Yard
Generic synonyms: Field
3. Noun. A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.).
4. Noun. A justification for something existing or happening. "They had good reason to rejoice"
5. 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
1. Noun. (legal) Basis or justification for something, as in "'''grounds''' for divorce." ¹
2. Noun. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle '''grounds.''' ¹
3. Noun. (plural only) The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grounds
1. ground [v] - See also: ground
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grounds
Literary usage of Grounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1912)
"Stmt-of amt realized from sale of refreshment stands on fair grounds. (22 same
1867 [pt 1J (p. 15)—26 same 1871.) Not found In 1869. ..."
2. A History of the New England Fisheries: With Maps by Raymond McFarland (1911)
"Fishing grounds are inshore or offshore, according as they are adjacent to the
... Offshore grounds are banks that may be elevated portions of coasts that ..."
3. An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"UPON these grounds depends the probability of any proposition : and as the
conformity of our knowledge, as the certainty of observations, as the frequency ..."
4. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"The grounds are thrown into these pits a little at a time, each layer being
heavily trampled down. Some advise to pour into them, every week thereafter, ..."
5. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1913)
"0617 Total $ 1.0080 STATE PAIR grounds. The State Fair grounds experimental road
was constructed on one of the main streets in the fair grounds, ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) Ophthalmoscopy This can be used (i) for the control of refractive anomalies
and (ii) for the study of the details of the eye-grounds. i. ..."
7. Publications (1848)
"Secondly, that all the grounds and principles leading to oppose bishops, ceremonies,
common prayer, prostitution of the ordinances of Christ to the ungodly, ..."
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