grounds

IPA: grˈaʊndz

(law) Basis or justification for something.
The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.

Examples of "grounds" in Sentences

A lawsuit against Bank of America on uncertain grounds is seeking nearly two sextillion dollars in damages:
I think the thing that really struck me during this walk was that here the city had spent all this (Federal, no doubt) money fixing up the old railway station as a municipal house of culture but immediately outside the grounds is a polluted creek of untreated agua negra which stinks up the whole place and flows directly into the lake from the cultural center.