Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground.
- any of various fishes that live at the bottom of the water.
- a spectator, reader, or other person of unsophisticated or uncultivated tastes; an uncritical or uncultured person.
- a member of a theater audience who sits in one of the cheaper seats.
noun
- any animal or plant that lives close to the ground or at the bottom of a lake, river, etc
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- (in Elizabethan theatre) a spectator standing in the yard in front of the stage and paying least
- a spectator in the cheapest section of any theatre
- a person on the ground as distinguished from one in an aircraft
“theater patron in the pit,” c.1600, from ground (n.) in an Elizabethan sense of “pit of a theater” + -ling. From the beginning emblematic of bad or unsophisticated taste. Old English grundling was a type of fish.