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GROUNDLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groundling mean?
• GROUNDLING (noun)
The noun GROUNDLING has 1 sense:
1. in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
Familiarity information: GROUNDLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("groundling" is a kind of...):
playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer (someone who attends the theater)
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