"home ground" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: home grounds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} home ground (countable and uncountable, plural home grounds)
  1. (sports) a sports team's own ground, which is used for their home games. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Synonyms: home turf Translations (team's own ground): 主場 /主场 (zhǔchǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), kotikenttä (Finnish), ホームグラウンド (hōmuguraundo) (Japanese), hjemmebane [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), heimebane [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-home_ground-en-noun-K6ItSEcU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 90 10 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of "team's own ground": 98 2
  2. (uncountable, figurative) an area or place where one feels familiar or at home. Tags: figuratively, uncountable Translations (where one feels familiar): 主場 /主场 (zhǔchǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), oma maa (Finnish), hazai pálya (Hungarian), ホームグラウンド (hōmuguraundo) (Japanese), hjemmebane [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), heimebane [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-home_ground-en-noun-Wgd-OStQ Disambiguation of 'where one feels familiar': 4 96

Inflected forms

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