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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 occursplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HOME GROUND (noun)


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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