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Definition: Ground Swell |
Ground SwellNoun1. An obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment that occurs without leadership or overt expression; "there was a ground swell of antiwar sentiment". 2. A broad and deep undulation of the ocean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Solitary high wave(s). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Ground SwellSynonym: heavy swell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex; whirlwind; (wind). |
River | Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad was silent, looking into the distance ahead, along the road, along the white road that waved gently, like a ground swell. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ground swell | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ground swell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عواصف, عاصفة (blow, foul wind, gale, gust, storm, tempest, thunder, weather), أمواج (waves). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мъртво вълнение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spodní vlna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | grundsoe, grundbrod, dønning (surge, swell), brodsoe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | grondzee (groundswell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lame de fond (groundswell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Grundsee (undertow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεύμα πυθμένος, στρώση ροής πυθμένα, φουσκοθαλασσιά (swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'לים כב"ים, סערת רעש, חשולי סער". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fenékhullám (ground-swell), erõs hullámzás (surge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | onde su bassi fondali, flutto getto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundgray ellsway onda de fundo. (various references) hulã (backbiting, blasphemy, calumny, curse, defamation, hula-hoop, impiety, slander, swell). (various references) донные волны. (various references) spontani razvoj političkog mišljenja, dubinski talas. (various references) mar de fondo (groundswell, swell). (various references) grundvåg, kraftig dyning, bottenvåg. (various references) salıntı, kabarma (eruption, flow, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, surging, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), dip dalgası. (various references) донна хвиля. (various references) sông đáy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: groundswell. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-w" | |
-2 letters: groundsel. | |
-3 letters: goldurns, guerdons, loungers, roundels, unrolled, unsolder. | |
-4 letters: dongles, downers, drogues, duellos, enduros, enrolls, gerunds, glowers, goldurn, gourdes, grounds, groused, growled, guerdon, guldens, lodgers, longers, loudens, lounged, lounger, lounges, lungers, nodules, nudgers, reglows, resound, rewound, rondels, roundel, rundles, sounder, sunglow, surgeon, swollen, swouned, undergo, undoers, unrolls, unsowed, unswore, weldors, wonders, wronged. | |
-5 letters: dongle. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-w" | |
+1 letter: groundswells. | |
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