grounds

  1. Noun.  (legal) Basis or justification for something, as in "'''grounds''' for divorce.".
  2. Noun.  The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle '''grounds.'''.
  3. Noun.  (plural only) The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

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