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Definition of home ground in English: home groundnoun 1A sports team's own ground. Anfield, Liverpool's home ground, is surrounded by residential streets as modifier Brisbane will have home ground advantage Example sentencesExamples - He walked out to huge cheers on his home ground, but the Surrey man lasted just three balls.
- Tunisia has won the African Cup of Nations on their home ground.
- On their home ground, Lismore should beat Grafton.
- They take on the Cougars at their home ground this Sunday.
- She wants to compete at the world championships in Edmonton and possibly even the European championships on home ground in Munich.
- They had the all-important benefit of home ground.
- In a press conference at their home ground, he announced the club was on the verge of signing a foreign striker to sharpen their attack in front of goals.
- They need to get a momentum going over the next 18 months to prepare for their defence of the trophy they won on home ground.
- In 1926, much of Boston's home ground, Fenway Park, was destroyed by fire.
- Making his first international appearance of the summer, he had an unhappy return on his home ground.
- 1.1mass noun A subject or area with which one is familiar or comfortable.
he's on home ground making a realistic film about two infatuated people Example sentencesExamples - In Sibelius's Arioso, they are more on home ground and project the song's haunting sense of melancholy.
- That was the first Verdi I ever did, with no rehearsal whatever, and I immediately felt on home ground.
- With poetry and publishing, she is very much on home ground.
- He takes a break from Hollywood comedies and returns to home ground: Hong Kong action films.
- He figured health reform was his home ground.
- The film-maker was not to recapture that first rapture in his later forays into home ground.
- She wrote it out of an intuition that much of what she prizes about her home ground is imperiled.
- His chosen home ground was Britain's political, social, and economic history throughout the 20th century.
- It's no surprise to us or our engineers that Windows on Intel is faster—it's their home ground.
- We are taking the lead in a market that was considered the home ground of our competitor.
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