Meanings
nounbreeding ground (plural breeding grounds)
plural breeding grounds
- alternativeAlternative form of breeding-ground.
Like those many works before it, Saltburn plays with the idea that these enormous bastions of privilege and power are unique breeding grounds for strangeness – and, crucially, magnets for it too.
2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC
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breeding ground. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breeding%20ground
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“breeding ground.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breeding%20ground. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breeding ground,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breeding%20ground.
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