SOLID GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solid ground mean? 

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

1. the solid part of the earth's surface

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLID GROUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The solid part of the earth's surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma

Context example:

he dropped the logs on the ground

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

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Part meronym:

earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solid ground"):

isthmus (a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas)

wonderland (a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder)

slash (an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind))

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

oxbow (the land inside an oxbow bend in a river)

neck (a narrow elongated projecting strip of land)

mainland (the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula)

land mass; landmass (a large continuous extent of land)

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)

foreland (land forming the forward margin of something)

floor (the ground on which people and animals move about)

coastal plain (a plain adjacent to a coast)

cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)

beachfront (a strip of land running along a beach)

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Instance hyponyms:

America (North America and South America and Central America)

 Context examples 

However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She felt as if she had solid ground under her feet again, and when Mr. Bhaer paused, outtalked but not one whit convinced, Jo wanted to clap her hands and thank him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)