Ground Definition
- To belabor (an issue or a subject).
- From the most basic level to the highest level; completely:
designed the house from the ground up; learned the family business from the ground up.
- Under way, as if in flight:
Because of legal difficulties, the construction project never got off the ground.
- In a situation where one has knowledge or competence:
a sculptor back on her own ground after experiments with painting.
- At a place that is exciting, interesting, or important:
a reporter who wanted to be on the ground when the story broke.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Ground
- drive
- from the ground up
- off the ground
- on (one's) own ground
- on the ground
- to ground
- break ground
- break new ground
- cover ground
- cut the ground from under someone
- from the ground up
- gain ground
- get off the ground
- give ground
- go to ground
- hold one's ground
- lose ground
- make up ground
- on delicate ground
- on firm ground
- on one's own ground
- on the ground
- run into the ground
- shift one's ground
- suit (right) down to the ground
- thick on the ground
- thin on the ground
Origin of Ground
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From Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”) and gryej (“to erode, crumble”).
From Wiktionary
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inflected form of grind See also milled.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English grund
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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