groundling
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡraʊnd.lɪŋ/
- Archaic
:
tercera clase
- That's, what, 500 groundlings at tuppence a head.
- groundlings stand
Examples
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Did you not mark how merry I made my groundlings when I did mime?
Fiction book (1999) -
Why is Oxford's man with the groundlings?
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So after that, I went to the first Groundlings show that I could on my day off.
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I was so excited for the groundlings class to start today.
Blog text (10) -
And so every now and then they would do these benefit shows at the Groundlings called the Trash Show.
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But describe how we get from Groundlings to Elvira.
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For groundlings' sake, Puck plays out his pranks.
Blog text (16) -
It reminded her of the groundlings at the old Globe, except that this audience was above the stage on the sloping sides of the bowl.
Fiction book (1998) -
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.
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The groundlings stood eagerly in front of the stage, waiting for the performance to begin.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Groundling comes from the people who stood on the 'ground' in front of the stage in Shakespeare's day, and the ending -ling marks a person. So a groundling was an audience member who paid little and stood near the stage.