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HOME GROUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does home ground mean?
• HOME GROUND (noun)
The noun HOME GROUND has 1 sense:
1. the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
Familiarity information: HOME GROUND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
habitat; home ground
Context example:
he felt safe on his home grounds
Hypernyms ("home ground" is a kind of...):
environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home ground"):
habitation (the native habitat or home of an animal or plant)
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