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What is "ground level"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ground level
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At ground level there are haloed birds with spread wings.
▪ Bacon's sweet-shop and grocery was at ground level.
▪ I used a forked stick - usually willow - and was very successful in finding water 20-40 feet below ground level.
▪ It had been a novelty at first, to sleep below ground level, footsteps passing on the pavement above her.
▪ It was also decided that the living areas would be upstairs, with the bedrooms at ground level.
▪ Its replacement marker indicates a thirteen-foot drop between the present ground level and that of the mid-nineteenth century.
▪ Madame de Rochefort and Antoinette both had suites on the first floor, while the Baron occupied rooms at ground level.
▪ Reduce power enough to ensure a rate of descent which will bring the model down to ground level just in front of you.
WordNet
ground level

  1. n. the height of the ground on which something stands; "the base of the tower was below grade" [syn: grade]

  2. the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building [syn: ground floor, first floor]

Wikipedia
Ground level

Ground level may refer to:

  • Earth's surface
  • Storey of a building/structure on (level with) the ground; also called the "ground floor"
  • Ground Level, Australian band
  • "Ground Level", a song by Stereo MCs from the album Connected

Usage examples of "ground level".

When they had climbed almost to ground level, a big car slammed to a stop in the street ahead, three-quarters blocking the exit.

We know that we have to be approved by security on the ground level, we don't dare ask how many armed guards are watching Benares, and we know that any attempt to get him on the vidphone will be tapped, even if we manage to break through the security system.

I stepped out of the passenger port onto the open elevator and waited for it to take me to ground level.

Peter preferred the suite to the executive offices on the hotel's ground level.

As they walked, soft lights winked on at ground level, triggered by motion.

The hotel registration desk also seemed ordinary, as long as she could pretend it was on ground level, and the great open shaft with the waterfall went that far up in the air.

Minutes later he was up at ground level, hurrying out of the main entrance of the Reactor Building.

Lower still, below ground level, began a different world, one of noise and smells and harsh bleakness.

Rap opened a new one at ground level, with an inattention anticharisma around it, and he scrambled out onto the courtyard flagstones, hot already from the early-morning sun.

Because the ocean waters were rising as a result of the melting of polar ice, the authorities wanted the ground level to be higher.