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say it: growndz
grounds is a noun meaning "your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹaʊndz/ — growndz. It carries 5 recorded senses.
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
“the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling”
the enclosed land around a house or other building
“it was a small house with almost no yard”
a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
a justification for something existing or happening
“he had no cause to complain”
“they had good reason to rejoice”
dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
“it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grounds come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.