| Groundling 1. (n.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. (n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. Thesaurus Entries Adamite, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, attender, audience, auditory, being, body, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, cat, chap, character, churl, claqueur, clown, congregation, creature, customer, deadhead, duck, earthling, epicier, fellow, gallery, guttersnipe, guy, hand, head, hired applauder, homo, hooligan, house, human, human being, ill-bred fellow, individual, joker, life, living soul, looby, lout, low fellow, man, mortal, moviegoer, mucker, nose, nouveau riche, one, orchestra, party, parvenu, pass holder, peasant, person, personage, personality, pit, playgoer, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, single, somebody, someone, soul, spectator, standee, tellurian, terran, theater, theatergoer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, worldling, yokel |