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piece of ground

n. an extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, parcel of land, parcel]

Usage examples of "piece of ground".

Americans complained about their government all the time, but that was not the same as hating the symbols on this historic piece of ground.

We thought there would be one piece of ground here and all of its residents would be Catholic.

Because she was sitting on a high piece of ground overlooking several valleys and, further out, a river, she could see that the forest extended for miles in all directions, bleak and unchanging.

Otherwise they were kept on the household altar or they could be set up as independent shrines on a rock or raised piece of ground, where they were worshipped with prostrations and the ancient and orthodox rite of clockwise circumambulation.

It was what appeared to be an old estate, set above a lake and situated on a piece of ground enclosed by a still-standing metal fence.