ground – English noun declension

English noun forms of ground

Noun: ground
Singularground
Pluralgrounds

Sample Sentences

  • Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
  • If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. [1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:]
  • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:]
  • As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter. [1971, “The development of terrain following radar: an account of the progress made with an airborne guidance system for low flying military aircraft”, in Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology:]
  • The worm crawls through the ground.
  • Wyth cry unreverent,
  • Before the sacrament,
  • Wythin the holy church bowndis,
  • That of our fayth the grownd is. [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 11–14:]
  • [B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […] [1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […] , Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51:]
  • You will need to show good grounds for your action.
  • He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
  • a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
  • I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruiting ground for the army? [1876, Parliamentary Papers, volume 14, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, page 147:]
  • crimson flowers on a white ground
  • […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […] [1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:]
  • One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...]. [1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:]
  • Brussels ground
  • Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
  • Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
  • А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by means of plates buried therein, or similar device. [1961, “GROUND”, in The International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics, 2nd edition, Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, page 539:]
  • Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ſome fear, // Be not you ſpoke with, but by mighty ſuit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ſtand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy deſcant: // And be not eaſily won to our requeſts: // Play the maid’s part, ſtill anſwer nay, and take it. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:]
  • the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment [1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
  • It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras. [1885, Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, page 515:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
4. Proto-Germanic *grunduz
5. Old English grund
6. Middle English ground
7. English ground
8. From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
9. (to punish): Compare (to bring) down to earth, to come down to earth. See: Middle English Nouns 'ground', Old English Nouns 'grund', Dutch Nouns 'grond', German Nouns 'Grund'.

Verbs referencing "ground"

German Nouns Grund, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns grunn.