Groundling

Quick meaning: Groundling is a noun meaning Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:.

Meaning

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:.

More Meanings

1. An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
2. (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
3. One who is confined to the ground, especially:
4. (Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

Example Sentences

In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings.

Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards.

when your Groundling, and gallery-Commoner buyes his sport by the penny, and, like a Hagler, is glad to utter it againe by retailing.

In fact, most of the mob did not know there was such a thing as a director, and it was the actors and the student orchestra whom the groundlings applauded.

Word Forms

• groundlings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bottomfeeder, bottomfish, benthic, ground, benthophil, benthos.

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