Usually means: Basis or reasons for belief.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. grounds: Merriam-Webster
  2. grounds: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grounds: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grounds: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ground's, Grounds, ground's, grounds: Wordnik
  6. grounds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. grounds: Wiktionary
  8. grounds: Dictionary.com
  9. grounds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Grounds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. grounds: Rhymezone
  12. grounds: FreeDictionary.org
  13. grounds: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. grounds: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. grounds: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grounds: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. grounds: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grounds: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grounds: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grounds: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grounds: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Grounds: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grounds)

▸ noun:  (law) Basis or justification for something.
▸ noun:  The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
▸ noun:  The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.

Similar:
cause, reason, evidence, yard, dregs, premises, garden, facilities, overlook, venue, more...

Opposite:
sky, air, heavens, space, aloft

Types:
espresso, drip, French press, percolator, espresso machine, cappuccino, latte, mocha, more...

Phrases:
hunting grounds, fishing grounds, breeding grounds, burial grounds, spawning grounds, more...

Adjectives:
good, moral, theoretical, religious, political, reasonable, economic, sufficient, clinical, legal, low

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Similar:
cause, reason, evidence, yard, dregs, premises, garden, facilities, overlook, venue, more...

Opposite:
sky, air, heavens, space, aloft

Types:
espresso, drip, French press, percolator, espresso machine, cappuccino, latte, mocha, more...

Phrases:
hunting grounds, fishing grounds, breeding grounds, burial grounds, spawning grounds, feeding grounds, coffee grounds, proving grounds, pleasure grounds, parade grounds, dumping grounds, camping grounds, more...

Adjectives:
good, moral, theoretical, religious, political, reasonable, economic, sufficient, clinical, legal, low

Colors:
    brown,     beige,     tan,     khaki,     olive, more...



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