Meaning of GROUNDLING
| Pronunciation: | | 'grawndling
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| | Definition: | | [n] in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section |
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| | See Also: | | playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ground"ling\, n. [Ground + -ling.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water,
as the loach.
2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on
the ground, and without floor or benches.
No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.
--Coleridge.
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| | Related Terms: | | Adamite, arriviste, attender, audience, auditory, Babbitt, being, body, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, cat, chap, character, churl, claqueur, clown, congregation, creature, customer, deadhead, duck, earthling, epicier, fellow, gallery, guttersnipe, guy, hand, head, hired applauder, homo, hooligan, house, human, human being, ill-bred fellow, individual, joker, life, living soul, looby, lout, low fellow, man, mortal, moviegoer, mucker, nose, nouveau riche, one, orchestra, party, parvenu, pass holder, peasant, person, personage, personality, Philistine, pit, playgoer, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, single, somebody, someone, soul, spectator, standee, tellurian, terran, theater, theatergoer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, worldling, yokel |
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