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groundling

[ US /ˈɡɹaʊndɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

How To Use groundling In A Sentence

  • Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
  • The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard, or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. Brief History of English and American Literature
  • Has anyone else noticed a lot more groundling crowd noise on The Daily Show and the Colbert Report? Is it just me #354: Kegger Edition | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
  • The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. From Chaucer to Tennyson
  • In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be. Lance Mannion:
  • But this attack is the work of a groundling who does not understand the turns and counter stands of romantic love. "Like Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in reverse, the giant, hideous beetle that was the GOP has suddenly been reborn as a vigorous youth...."
  • I warmed up my voice shouting in the street before they opened El Museo del Barrio to those of us who had political connections or groundling tickets like me. Reverend Billy: The Heckler
  • The woman in orange shouts at us groundlings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The woman in orange shouts at us groundlings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Groundlings stood in the unroofed yard in the centre of the octagonal playhouse.
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