Explore Groundskeeper through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like groundsman or groundkeeper. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Groundskeeper meaning
Someone who takes care of the upkeep of grounds (gardens, a playing field, woodlands, etc.)
Synonyms of Groundskeeper
Using Groundskeeper
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who takes care of the upkeep of grounds (gardens, a playing field, woodlands, etc.)
- Useful related words include: groundsman, groundkeeper, gardener.
- In the example corpus, groundskeeper often appears in combinations such as: school groundskeeper, as groundskeeper, groundskeeper who.
Context around Groundskeeper
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Groundskeeper
- In this selection, "groundskeeper" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, school, lead, university, dave, began and graham stand out and add context to how "groundskeeper" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cemetery groundskeeper with walter and a groundskeeper who developed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "groundskeeper" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with groundskeeper
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everything they do is run by groundskeeper Dave Mellor first. (10 words)
Bernardino retired from the Kāʻanapali Golf Course as a Groundskeeper. (10 words)
The groundskeeper began to dislodge the nails on the top of the coffin. (13 words)
In an email to team and stadium officials, Lead Stadium Groundskeeper Wayne Thompson said a new drainpipe in the area of concern was added Monday, and spliced existing pipes, which were “filled with water”, into the new pipe. (38 words)
In 2018, a school groundskeeper in the US won a case against Monsanto – the maker of Roundup – who claimed that extended exposure to the herbicide had caused him to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (34 words)
The former Saint Mary’s University groundskeeper has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm and the trial is being heard by judge alone in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Everything they do is run by groundskeeper Dave Mellor first.
He works as the groundskeeper of an all-girls boarding school, also in France.
Nicole’s body was discovered by a groundskeeper at Hill Cemetery in Fredonia, Kentucky, on June 13, 2020.
The groundskeeper began to dislodge the nails on the top of the coffin.
He was hired by co-lead groundskeeper Graham Flora, but his contact was retired Naperville Central baseball coach Bill Seiple, now an official scorer with the Cubs.
Johnson worked as a groundskeeper from 2012 through mid-2015, mixing and spraying hundreds of gallons of Roundup to keep grass and weeds under control.
In 2018, a school groundskeeper in the US won a case against Monsanto – the maker of Roundup – who claimed that extended exposure to the herbicide had caused him to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The former Saint Mary’s University groundskeeper has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm and the trial is being heard by judge alone in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
This isn’t right,” said a protester who works as a groundskeeper for a Canadian owned farm.
Armstrong, Mike Modisett — the Madison schools athletics groundskeeper — and others have been preparing the ballfield.
Just two months after the acquisition was completed, Monsanto lost a case to a school groundskeeper suffering from terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Matthew Thomas Bernard puts his hands on Keeling Baptist Church groundskeeper Loyd Gauldin, as a state police officer attempts to take him into custody in Keeling, Va. on Aug. 27, 2019.
These include the school firing Groundskeeper Willie and new teacher Tito Puente, Moe losing his tavern, the destruction of the Springfield Retirement Castle, as well as injuring Bart’s dog, Santa’s Little Helper.
While living in Massachusetts, he worked several years as a cemetery groundskeeper with Walter Bragg, his good friend since boyhood.
A groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Monsanto’s weed-killers for years is entitled to $39 million in compensation and $250 million in punitive damages, a California jury has decided.
Bernardino retired from the Kāʻanapali Golf Course as a Groundskeeper.
Former school groundskeeper has been awarded nearly $290 million after a jury at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco determined that ‘Roundup’ played a “substantial factor” in his deteriorating health.
In an email to team and stadium officials, Lead Stadium Groundskeeper Wayne Thompson said a new drainpipe in the area of concern was added Monday, and spliced existing pipes, which were “filled with water”, into the new pipe.
The Bay Area groundskeeper was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014 at age 42.
The first case to reach trial involves DeWayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who applied Roundup to control weeds during his employment from 2012 to 2015.
Common combinations with groundskeeper
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- school groundskeeper 4×
- as groundskeeper 3×
- groundskeeper who 3×
- by groundskeeper 2×
- the groundskeeper 2×
- groundskeeper with 2×
- groundskeeper has 2×