groundwork
groundwork is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- antecedent
- article
- avant-courier
- being
- bellwether
- blood
- bodily
- body
- corporeal
- corporeity
- creature
- dawn
- element
- essential
- essentially
- existence
- exordium
- flesh
- foreboding
- forerunner
- foreword
- frontispiece
- harbinger
- heading
- herald
- hypostasis
- hypostatic
- inaugural
- introduction
- introductory
- item
- leader
- material
- materiality
- matter
- nature
- object
- omen
- outrider
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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