Grounds
[graɪnd]
Definition
(noun.) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.).
(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'.
Typed by Edwina--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Lees, dregs, sediment, grouts, precipitate, settlings.
Edited by Henry
Examples
- A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The grounds were more than an acre and a quarter in extent, and they were filled with people! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Tell me what it is, explain the grounds on which you acted, and I shall be satisfied, in being able to satisfy you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was really very large and beautiful and there were fine trees in the grounds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As it was, I met him with the most resolute politeness, apologised for my involuntary intrusion (which he called a trespass,) and left the grounds. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Once clear of the grounds, the duties of hospitality (in Betteredge's code of morals) ceased, and the privileges of curiosity began. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They believe in life after death, where the spirit is surrounded with the pleasures of the happy hunting grounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are through the village, up the hill, and down the hill, and on the low watery grounds. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A strict divorce law might be like New York's: it would recognize few grounds for a decree. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For the grounds of action, sir,' continued Dodson, with moral elevation in his air, 'you will consult your own conscience and your own feelings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He argues with much force on general grounds that species are not immutable productions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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