Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground.
- adjective Hidden; secret.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth or under ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective below ground, under the earth,
underground
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or operating under the surface of the earth
- adjective lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although the opinion is silent on the issue, it is safe to assume that the released men are college Professors holding doctorates in subterranean climatology.
Discourse.net: Judge Grants Writ of Habeas Corpus for 5 out of 6 Gantanamo Detainees 2008
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Just like in subterranean carbon sequestration, the CO2 would be pumped and moved via pipes to the bag.
Storing CO2 in Giant Underwater Plastic Bags? | Inhabitat 2008
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"Behold men as if dwelling in subterranean cavern" [Plato, Republic, 7.1].
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Or bound in subterranean dungeons [Maurer]. prison-houses -- either literal prisons, or their own houses, whence they dare not go forth for fear of the enemy.
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The increasing number of reports on microbes in subterranean samples (Pedersen, 1993; Colwell et al.,
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However that might be, there was, under the Scottish subsoil, what might be called a subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of the sun, or, for want of that, the light of
The Underground City 2003
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He never thinks it beneath his dignity to touch a point of minor morals, or to say a good word for what he somewhere calls subterranean prudence.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson John Morley 1880
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However that might be, there was, under the Scottish subsoil, what might be called a subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of the sun, or, for want of that, the light of a special planet.
The Underground City 1877
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However that might be, there was, under the Scottish subsoil, what might be called a subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of the sun, or, for want of that, the light of a special planet.
The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Jules Verne 1866
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A kanāt may be called a subterranean aqueduct, and is a succession of wells, beginning in the mountains, and conducted the required distance into the plains, sometimes for thirty or forty miles.
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