Usually means: Theater audience member, cheap standing area.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. groundling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. groundling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. groundling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. groundling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. groundling: Vocabulary.com
  6. groundling: Wordnik
  7. groundling: Wiktionary
  8. groundling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. groundling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. groundling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Groundling, groundling: Dictionary.com
  12. Groundling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Groundling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. groundling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. groundling: Rhymezone
  16. Groundling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. groundling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. groundling: Free Dictionary
  19. groundling: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. groundling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. groundling: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. groundling: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. groundling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (groundling)

noun:  Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
noun:  The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.
noun:  The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.
noun:  A dragonfly of the genus Brachythemis.
noun:  A moth of the genus Condica
noun:  An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
noun:  (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
noun:  One who is confined to the ground, especially:
noun:  (military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.
noun:  (fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.
noun:  (Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

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