grounding

Other forms of grounding

plural

groundings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grounding

What does grounding mean?

grounding means "education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grounding?

grounding has 2 syllables: groun-ding. The stress falls on "groun". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaʊndɪŋ/.

What is another word for grounding?

Close synonyms include foundation, earthing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grounding a common word?

grounding is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.