grounds

Pronunciation:			gr'awndz
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Matching Terms:			ground, ground almond, ground attack, ground bait, ground ball, ground bass, ground beef, ground beetle, ground cable, ground cedar, ground cherry, ground cloth, ground control, ground cover, ground crew, ground effect, ground fir, ground fire, ground floor, ground glass, ground ivy, ground level, ground loop, ground noise, ground out, ground pine, ground pink, ground plan, ground rattler, ground reconnaissance, ground rent, ground roller, ground rose, ground rule, ground running and walking, ground sloth, ground snake, ground squirrel, ground state, ground stone, ground stroke, ground substance, ground swell, ground tackle, ground water, ground wave, groundage, groundberry, groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony, ground-controlled approach, groundcover, groundedly, ground-effect machine, ground-emplaced mine, grounden, grounder, groundfish, ground-floor, groundhog, groundhog day, grounding, groundless, ground-level, groundling, groundly, groundmass, groundnut, groundnut oil, groundnut vine, groundsel, groundsel bush, groundsel tree, ground-service crew, ground-shaker, groundsheet, groundskeeper, groundsman, groundspeed, groundwater, groundwater flow, groundwater level, groundwater recharge, groundwater recharge area, groundwork
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [n]  a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" [n]  a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) [n]  sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
	Synonyms:		cause, curtilage, dregs, evidence, reason, settlings, yard
	See Also:		backyard, coffee grounds, cogent evidence, court, courtyard, deposit, disproof, dooryard, falsification, field, front yard, garden, information, justification, lead, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, playground, probable cause, proof, refutation, sediment, side yard, sign, symptom, track, tract, trail
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		acres, alluvion, alluvium, antecedents, artificial turf, ash, Astroturf, base, basement, basis, basis for belief, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, body of evidence, boundary condition, bowling green, call, catch, causation, cause, cause and effect, chain of evidence, chattels real, cinder, clause, clinker, clue, common, condition, data, datum, demesne, deposition, deposits, determinant, determinative, diluvium, documentation, domain, donnee, draff, dregs, dross, element, ember, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, etiology, evidence, exhibit, fact, factor, facts, fairway, feces, fine print, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, froth, fundament, fundamental, given, golf course, golf links, good reason, grassplot, green, greenyard, ground, grounds for belief, groundwork, hardpan, honor, indication, item of evidence, joker, kicker, land, landed property, lands, lawn, lees, limiting condition, loess, lot, lots, manifestation, manor, mark, material basis, material grounds, messuage, moraine, muniments, mute witness, obligation, occasion, offscum, parameter, parcel, park, pavement, piece of evidence, plat, plot, praedium, precipitate, precipitation, premises, prerequisite, principle, proof, property, provision, provisions, proviso, putting green, quadrat, radical, real estate, real property, realty, reason, reason to believe, relevant fact, requisite, right, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, saving clause, scoria, scum, seat, sediment, settlings, sign, sill, silt, sine qua non, sinter, slag, small print, smut, solid ground, solid rock, soot, specification, stereobate, stimulus, stipulation, string, stylobate, sublimate, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, symptom, tenements, terms, terra firma, toft, token, ultimatum, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, village green, warrant, whereas