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Webster 1828 Edition

Groundwork

GROUND'WORK

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Noun.

The work which forms the foundation or support of any thing; the basis; the fundamentals.

1.

The ground; that to which the rest are additional.

2.

First principle; original reason.

Definition 2024

groundwork

groundwork

English

Noun

groundwork ‎(countable and uncountable, plural groundworks)

The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.
The discovery of the laws of electricity laid the groundwork for a century of innovation.

Translations

foundation

Arabic:
Bashkir: нигеҙ ‎(nigeð)
Bulgarian: основа (bg) f ‎(osnova), база (bg) f ‎(baza), основен принцип m ‎(osnoven princip)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 基礎 (zh), 基础 (zh) ‎(jīchǔ)
Dutch: grondslag (nl)
Finnish: perustus (fi), perusta (fi)
French: fondation (fr) f, fondement (fr) m
German: Grundlage (de) f
Hindi: नींव ‎(nīnva), आधार (hi) ‎(ādhāra)
Indonesian:

Italian: fondamenti (it) m
Japanese: 基礎 (ja) ‎(きそ, kiso)
Korean: 터 (ko) ‎(teo)
Latin: principium (la) n
Macedonian:
Manx: obbyr undinagh f
Portuguese: fundamento (pt) m
Russian: осно́ва (ru) f ‎(osnóva), фунда́мент (ru) m ‎(fundáment)
Spanish: cimiento (es) m, fundamento (es) m
Swedish: grundstomme

See also

legwork