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ground swell

ground swell is the alternative form of groundswell.

Meaning of groundswell

Noun

groundswell (plural groundswells)

  1. A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance.
  2. (broadly) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion.
    • An astonishing groundswell of support for the new Democratic frontrunner, Barack Obama, is threatening to sweep Hillary Clinton away in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary election of the 2008 presidential contest tomorrow.2008 January 7, Ewen MacAskill, “Groundswell for Obama leaves Clinton campaign on the rack”, in The Guardian

Forms of ground swell

pluralground swells

Questions about ground swell

What is ground swell the alternative form of?
Ground swell is the alternative form of groundswell.

Words near ground swell in the dictionary

  1. ground station
  2. ground stations
  3. ground stop
  4. ground stops
  5. ground substance
  6. ground swell
  7. ground swells
  8. ground tackle
  9. ground the corn
  10. ground tissue
  11. ground tissues

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ground swell (page history and authors); groundswell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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