Thesaurus: groundling

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1. n. A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
2. n. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.
3. n. in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
4. 1. (Zoöl.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.
5. A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
6. n:100 n. in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section