ground

ground is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

green - ground - group

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /'graʊnd/
• SAMPA: /"graUnd/

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Noun

Singular ground

Plural grounds

Ground is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

People walking on the ground

1. (uncountable) The ground is what you stand or sit on when you are outside.

   I ran out of the house and fell on the ground.

2. (uncountable) Ground is terrain; it is the land.
3. (uncountable) Ground is earth or soil.
4. (countable) A ground is the bottom of a body of water.
5. (uncountable) The ground for something is the basis or foundation of it.
6. (countable) The ground for something is the background or context of it.
7. (sports), (countable) A ground is a soccer stadium.

Related words

aground groundwork groundable groundburst groundbreaker groundbreaking groundbreakingly

groundball grounder groundless groundlessly groundwater groundlessness

Verb 1

Plain form ground

Third-person singular grounds

Past tense grounded

Past participle grounded

Present participle grounding

1. (transitive) If you ground a pilot of an airplane, you stop them from flying.

   The plane had been grounded because of the blizzard.

2. (transitive) If you ground a circuit of electricity, you connect it with a ground.
3. (transitive) If you ground a child, you take away their privileges, like the phone and the television, and not allow them to go out, usually as a punishment.

Verb 2

Plain form grind

Third-person singular grinds

Past tense ground

Past participle ground

Present participle grinding

1. The past tense and past participle of grind.

Adjective

Positive ground

Comparative none

Superlative none

1. If something is ground, it is crushed into small particles.
2. If something is ground, it has been prepared through grinding.

Synonyms

• milled