GROUNDS

grounds

Noun

  1. Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce."
  2. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).


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