groundling
(noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
Source: WordNet® 3.1
groundling (plural groundlings)
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially
The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach ( Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.
The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.
An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
(by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
One who is confined to the ground, especially
(military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.
(fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.
(Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).
Source: Wiktionary
Ground"ling, n. Etym: [Ground + -ling.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
