COMMON GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common ground mean? 

• COMMON GROUND (noun)
  The noun COMMON GROUND has 1 sense:

1. a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding

  Familiarity information: COMMON GROUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON GROUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("common ground" is a kind of...):

basis; footing; ground (a relation that provides the foundation for something)

 Context examples 

'Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth. He would only add, before he sat down, that he rejoiced—and all of them would rejoice—that these gentlemen had returned safe and sound from their difficult and dangerous task, for it cannot be denied that any disaster to such an expedition would have inflicted a well-nigh irreparable loss to the cause of Zoological science.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)