Usually means: Site of a major disaster.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word ground zero:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ground zero: Merriam-Webster
  2. Ground Zero, ground zero: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ground zero: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ground zero: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ground zero: Vocabulary.com
  6. ground-zero: Wordnik
  7. ground zero: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ground Zero, ground-zero, ground zero: Wiktionary
  9. ground zero: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ground zero: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ground zero: Dictionary.com
  12. Ground Zero (As Blood Runs Black album), Ground Zero (band), Ground Zero (blues club), Ground Zero (book), Ground Zero (campaign), Ground Zero, Ground zero (disambiguation), Ground zero: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. ground zero: Rhymezone
  14. ground zero: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ground zero: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ground zero: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Ground zero: World Wide Words
  18. ground zero: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ground zero: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ground zero: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ground Zero)

noun:  Originally, the point on the land or water surface below which a nuclear bomb detonates in the air; now also the point on such a surface at or above the detonation.
noun:  (by extension) The location of any disaster or violent assault.
noun:  (figuratively) The point at which something begins.
noun:  The site of the former World Trade Center towers in New York City destroyed on 11 September 2001.

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