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Meaning of GROUNDS

Pronunciation:  gr'awndz

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
  2. [n]  a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
  3. [n]  a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
  4. [n]  sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
 
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 Synonyms: cause, curtilage, dregs, evidence, reason, settlings, yard
 
 See Also: backyard, coffee grounds, cogent evidence, court, courtyard, deposit, disproof, dooryard, falsification, field, front yard, garden, information, justification, lead, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, playground, probable cause, proof, refutation, sediment, side yard, sign, symptom, track, tract, trail

 

 

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 Related Terms: acres, alluvion, alluvium, antecedents, artificial turf, ash, Astroturf, base, basement, basis, basis for belief, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, body of evidence, boundary condition, bowling green, call, catch, causation, cause, cause and effect, chain of evidence, chattels real, cinder, clause, clinker, clue, common, condition, data, datum, demesne, deposition, deposits, determinant, determinative, diluvium, documentation, domain, donnee, draff, dregs, dross, element, ember, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, etiology, evidence, exhibit, fact, factor, facts, fairway, feces, fine print, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, froth, fundament, fundamental, given, golf course, golf links, good reason, grassplot, green, greenyard, ground, grounds for belief, groundwork, hardpan, honor, indication, item of evidence, joker, kicker, land, landed property, lands, lawn, lees, limiting condition, loess, lot, lots, manifestation, manor, mark, material basis, material grounds, messuage, moraine, muniments, mute witness, obligation, occasion, offscum, parameter, parcel, park, pavement, piece of evidence, plat, plot, praedium, precipitate, precipitation, premises, prerequisite, principle, proof, property, provision, provisions, proviso, putting green, quadrat, radical, real estate, real property, realty, reason, reason to believe, relevant fact, requisite, right, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, saving clause, scoria, scum, seat, sediment, settlings, sign, sill, silt, sine qua non, sinter, slag, small print, smut, solid ground, solid rock, soot, specification, stereobate, stimulus, stipulation, string, stylobate, sublimate, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, symptom, tenements, terms, terra firma, toft, token, ultimatum, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, village green, warrant, whereas
 

 

 

 

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