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Ground level   /graʊnd lˈɛvəl/   Listen
Ground level

noun
1.
The height of the ground on which something stands.  Synonym: grade.
2.
The floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building.  Synonyms: first floor, ground floor.






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"Ground level" Quotes from Famous Books



... sea-side, conveying passengers from Glasgow to Rothesay, about forty-five miles, for sixpence cabin and three-pence deck. The trains start from a light and spacious shed, which has the very great disadvantage of being at an elevation of thirty or forty feet above the ground level. Railway companies have sometimes spent thousands of pounds to accomplish ends not a tenth part so desirable as is the arranging their stations in such a manner as that people in departing, and still more in ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd

... no known entrance to the granary above ground, except on the ground level, where a huge stone gateway frowned above a teak-and-iron door. Above that door there were galleries, and fortalices and cunningly invented battlements in miniature, from behind whose shelter a resolute ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy



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