grounds

Noun

• dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
  • it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds
    

• a justification for something existing or happening
  • he had no cause to complain
    
  • they had good reason to rejoice
    

• a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)

• the enclosed land around a house or other building
  • it was a small house with almost no yard
    

• your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
  • the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cause , reason , yard , curtilage , evidence