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ˈplayground
A piece of ground used for playing on, esp. one attached to a school; hence, a place of recreation however extensive. Also transf., fig., and attrib.
1780A. Young Tour in Ireland 104 The school is a building of considerable extent..with..a spacious play-ground walled in. 1794Southey Retrospect 79 Much of the easy life the scholars led, Of spacious play-ground and of wholesome air, The best instruction and the tenderest care. 1798Hull Advertiser 16 June 1/2 Seminary at Thorp-Arch... Adjoining are extensive Play Grounds, for the recreation of the young gentlemen. 1857A. Mathews Tea-Table Talk I. 4 A Magazine is..an actual playground of indulgence to young authors. 1871L. Stephen (title) The playground of Europe. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 6 Our travellers..have made of Switzerland an English playground. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xxi. 595 The neighbouring villages were the play-ground and sporting-ground of the townsmen. 1901Expositor July 47 Science has found the problem no playground. 1910Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 1/3 The ‘playground’ England, the England of great country houses, of game preserves, [etc.]. 1916A. Huxley Let. 7 Sept. (1969) 111 They tell me..you are returning to..England. Or else pacifically to what the Editor of Truth would call the playground of Europe. 1929A. E. Ford My Minnesota iv. 194 Like hundreds of others we wish our vacation would never end, and we know now why Minnesota has become the ‘Playground of the Nation’. 1963W. Soyinka Dance of Forests 2 Ogun, they deify, for his playground is the battle field. 1968Listener 19 Dec. 819/2, I gave midnight nudie bathing parties from my private yacht moored at the millionaires' playground of Grimsby. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 271 The most telling playground for feelings of rejection about women is the joke department. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird vii. 89 Great Harbour Cay is an island..undergoing transformation into a luxurious international playground for tropical sport. 1975M. Simpson Chrome Connection ii. 10 A reminder about..playground duty. 1976H. Nielsen Brink of Murder iii. 26 Simon sent off ten cables to ten European playgrounds where Jack Keith might be holidaying. 1977Wandsworth Borough News 16 Sept. 15/1 Planning Proposals... St. Faith's School, Smardale-road, Wandsworth—erection of playground shelter. |