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grounds

noun

1 grounds

Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.

synonym: evidence.

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, ... show more

Roget 467: evidence; facts, premises, data, praecognita [Lat.], grounds.    indication etc. 550; criterion etc. (test) 463.    testimony, ... show more

Roget 653: uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; ... show more

Dutch: aanleiding

2 grounds

The enclosed land around a house or other building.

synonyms: curtilage, yard.

Dutch: erf, park, werf
Polish: opłotki

3 grounds

A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.).

4 grounds

A justification for something existing or happening.

synonyms: cause, reason.

Dutch: veroorzaken

5 grounds

Dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue.

Polish: fusy


Moby thesaurus: Astroturf, acres, alluvion, alluvium, antecedents, artificial turf, ash, base, basement, basis, basis for belief, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, body of evidence, boundary condition, bowling green, call, catch ... show more.

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