ground in English: The land under your feet when you are outside. (noun)

Translation

The land under your feet when you are outside.

Word origin

From Old English grund, meaning the bottom or the foundation of something.

Gender

Pluralgrounds

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Outside we say "the ground", inside we say "the floor".

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Things fall "on the ground".

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"Ground" is usually uncountable.

floor

The flat part of a room that you walk on and stand on.

earth

The planet where we live, or the ground and soil under our feet.

land

The ground, the dry part of the earth that is not the sea.

sit

To rest with the lower part of your body on a chair or the ground.

fall

To move down quickly towards the ground.

site

A piece of ground where something is built or where something happened.

yard

A length of about 91 centimetres, a little less than a metre; also an open space beside a building.

base

The bottom part that something stands on, or the main place a group works from.

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