Word Meanings - PLAYGROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

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• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• SCHOOLMA'AM
  A schoolmistress.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.