centerground

noun

Etymology

From center + ground.

  1. inherited from *grunduz
  2. inherited from *grundu
  3. inherited from grund
  4. inherited from ground
  5. compounded as centerground — “center + ground

Definitions

  1. The area between foreground and background

    The area between foreground and background; middle distance.

    • The farmer's wife is visible in the centerground of the painting.
    • And with Sellars’ shift to the centerground of philosophical interest, we have, all of a sudden, two such books appearing almost contemporaneously.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for centerground. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA