A groundling was a person who visited the Red Lion, The Rose, or the Globe theatres in the early 17th century. [1] They were too poor to pay to be able to sit on one of the three levels of the …

The meaning of GROUNDLING is a spectator who stood in the pit of an Elizabethan theater. Did you know?

A “Groundling” is one of the 40 company members who write and perform in the theatre’s shows and teach classes at The Groundlings School. Our school has been the foremost comedy …

GROUNDLING definition: a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground. ground. See examples of groundling used in a sentence.

As Shakespeare stood on the stage, looking down at the penny-stinkers, they may have looked to him like gaping fish as they stared open-mouthed, up at him, thus the metaphor – the word …

There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun groundling, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Definition of 'groundling' groundling in British English (ˈɡraʊndlɪŋ ) noun