Meaning

3 senses

  1. A ground ball.

    (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

  2. A fruit that has fallen to the ground rather than being picked; a windfall.

  3. One of the large stones forming the base of a Cornish hedge.

Origin

From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er.

From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er.

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Forms

plural: grounders
Singulargrounder
Pluralgrounders

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedmiddle-grounderfly ballline drivepop-upground

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
groundA1groundbreakinggroundhoggroundinggroundlessgroundwater

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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