Groundling

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
2. An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
3. (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
4. One who is confined to the ground, especially:
5. (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.

[…] the ewe called Tiny Crossed over and touched her, the others turned anxious looks From sniffing the autumn-pinched leaves of the groundling blackberries.

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

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.

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

The flag is up on the playhouse by the bankside. The bear Sackerson growls in the pit near it, Paris garden. Canvasclimbers who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the groundlings.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted.

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.

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