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groundsider

groundsider noun: someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).

Noun

groundsider (plural groundsiders)

  1. Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).
    • Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67
    • Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this...1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7
    Synonyms:
    landsider, dirtsider

Examples of groundsider in a sentence

  • These groundsiders were the real aliens.1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:
  • It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly.1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:
  • The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine.2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:

Synonyms of groundsider

Forms of groundsider

pluralgroundsiders

Origin of groundsider

From groundside + -er.

Questions about groundsider

What does groundsider mean?
Groundsider means someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).
How do you use groundsider in a sentence?
These groundsiders were the real aliens.
What part of speech is groundsider?
Groundsider is a noun.
What is the plural of groundsider?
The plural of groundsider is groundsiders.

Words near groundsider in the dictionary

  1. groundshark
  2. groundsharks
  3. groundsheet
  4. groundsheets
  5. groundside
  6. groundsider
  7. groundsiders
  8. groundsill
  9. groundsills
  10. groundskeeper
  11. groundskeepers

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