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- 1. a sports team's own ground: "Anfield, Liverpool's home ground, is surrounded by residential streets"
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noun. an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar. When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
Home ground definition: an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar. See examples of HOME GROUND used in a sentence.
Definition of home ground noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of home ground. noun. the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs. “he felt safe on his home grounds ”. synonyms: habitat. see more.
home ground in American English. noun. an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar. When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
home ground - the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"
The earliest known use of the noun home ground is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for home ground is from 1637, in a letter by Samuel Rutherford, Church of Scotland minister and political theorist.
