Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

breeding-ground

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

Syllables: breed-ing--ground
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place or region where animals go to breed.

noun

A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.

Example Sentences

"Harris criticized the report's emphasis on enforcement, noting that, "Putting people in jail won't stop the virus from spreading." In fact, prisons are virtual breeding grounds for AIDS, due to lack of safer sex and safer drug use education, condoms and uncontaminated needles."
"Echoing Allen Ginsberg, he contends that the suburban setting of “Father Knows Best” is most accurately seen as America's “ludicrous breeding ground for the young meat who will be fed into its wars and rat races and inhuman conformities.”"
"What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?"

Inflected Forms

breeding-grounds (plural) breeding ground (alternative)

Phrases

fever swamp

Frequently Paired Words

fever swamp hotbed nidus

Questions

What does breeding-ground mean?: A place or region where animals go to breed.

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