stomping ground

noun

Definition of stomping groundnext
as in haunt
a place for spending time or for socializing a major part of the fun of alumni weekend is visiting the old stomping grounds

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Recent Examples of stomping ground Meanwhile, the likes of Dubai and Shenzhen will become the stomping ground for new centimillionaires, the report suggests. — Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024 Our home base, or stomping ground, was Nashville because my mother worked at Tennessee State University. — Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025 For the latter, plan a trip to Forte dei Marmi, the stomping ground of wealthy Florentines, where sidewalks are paved in marble from the nearby caves of Carrara. — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2024 Long associated with the PGA Tour, Riviera is among golf's most prestigious properties and a stomping ground of myriad Hollywood celebrities and corporate power brokers. — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for stomping ground
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  1. haunt
  2. stamping ground
Noun
  • And to return to some of favorite haunts, but also to see what's next.
    — Matt Zahn, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • The younger Burrows spent hours of his youth in theaters and studios watching his father work, dining with him at such famed New York haunts as Sardi’s and Gallagher’s and meeting celebrities who attended his father’s New Year’s Eve parties.
    — Beth Harris, Fortune, 20 June 2026
Definition of haunt
Noun
  • That story began on June 23, 2018, when celebrating members of the Wild Boars soccer team entered Tham Luang, a favorite stamping ground, not realizing that the fast-approaching monsoon season was about to get an early start.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Greece’s banking sector has been a stamping ground for international investors since the country’s emergence from crippling bailout programs and years of economic turmoil.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
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“Stomping ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomping%20ground. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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