English Dictionary

groundling

noun

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach ( Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches. / The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

I saw a groundling swimming in the river.

意味（1）

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach ( Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobites Barbatula. It is a small fish about five inches long, bearded with six small Threads, three on each side

意味（2）

The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

意味（3）

An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.

意味（4）

(by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.

This is what the magnanimous National Liberal Federation have said in effect to the House of Lords, and what, it should seem, they innocently regard as likely to impress the Gladstonian groundling.

意味（5）

(military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.

The poor plodding groundling, helpless and impotent, is swooped upon at will, day and night, completely wiped out at the whim of the low- flying plane, which soars off leaving complete and utter destruction behind it!

意味（6）

(fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.

Simon noticed a groundling look intently at Walsingham's purse and nudge his mate.

意味（7）

(Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

It is not good for the groundling to be alone I will make for it a help as its counterpart (2.18).