grounds
/ɡɹaʊndz/ noun C2- Basis or justification for something. · grounds for divorce
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area. · the castle grounds
Plural grounds
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SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
By the side of a field at the end of the grounds.
He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.
“Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds.
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