solid ground

Questions about solid ground

What does solid ground mean?

solid ground means "the solid part of the earth's surface".

What is another word for solid ground?

Close synonyms include land, dry land, earth, ground, terra firma. 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 solid ground a common word?

solid ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.