home ground

/hoʊm graʊnd/
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Other forms: home grounds

Definitions of home ground
  1. noun
    the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
    “he felt safe on his home grounds”
    synonyms: habitat
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    types:
    habitation
    the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
    aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry
    any habitation at a high altitude
    den, lair
    the habitation of wild animals
    type of:
    environment, environs, surround, surroundings
    the area in which something exists or lives
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