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Pleasure Ground

Definition: Pleasure Ground

Pleasure Ground

Noun

1. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Pleasure Ground

Synonyms: amusement park (n), funfair (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pleasure Ground

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne.

Agriculture

Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode).

Amusement

Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pleasure Ground

English words defined with "pleasure ground": To take pleasure in. (references)

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Modern Translation: Pleasure Ground

Language Translations for "pleasure ground"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

park (barn, garden, Park, parkland), shesh lojërash (pitch, playground, playing field). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملعب ملاهي, ‏ساحة المرح (pleasure seeker). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

увеселителен парк (amusement park), парк с игрища, парк (fleet, gardens, grounds, pleasance, rolling stock, stock, yard). (various references)

   

Czech

  

park (grounds, Park). (various references)

   

French

  

lieu de plaisir. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ'רש שעשועים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szórakozóhely (casino, palace, playground, pleasure-ground). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easureplay oundgray

   

Russian 

  

сад (garden, grounds, orchard, sade), парк для прогулок, площадка для игр (court, playground, recreation ground). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

park (fleet, garden, park). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parque de diversiones. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nöjesfält (amusement park, funfair). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lunapark (amusement park, fair, funfair), eğlence yeri (hot spot, place of amusement, spot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pleasure Ground

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-o-p-r-r-s-u-u"

-4 letters: launderers, plunderers, plunderous, superlarge, superlunar.

-5 letters: aleurones, anglepods, dangerous, deplorers, dognapers, dragropes, dungarees, enlargers, gardeners, garrulous, geepounds, grandeurs, granulose, grounders, groundsel, launderer, longueurs, noseguard, oleanders, panderers, pardoners, pauldrons, pendulous, personage, persuader, pleasured, pledgeors, plunderer, ponderers, poulardes, poundages, preluders, rearoused, redargues, regrouped, reloaders, renegados, replunged, replunges, repursued, responder, slanderer, sloganeer, splendour, superglue, superreal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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