grounds

groundsnoun詞源 2/ɡɹaʊndz/

• 1

  lawBasis or justification for something.

  • grounds for divorce
  • There was, however, one proposal which, had it reached fruition, might have had far-reaching effects. This was for the amalgamation of the Caledonian, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, and the Scottish Central Railways, for which a Bill was promoted, but rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on the grounds that the preamble was not proved.
• 2

  The collective land areas that compose a larger area.

  • the castle grounds
  • House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.

groundsnoun詞源 3/ɡɹaʊndz/

• 1

  The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.

  • coffee grounds

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• ground