Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being above ground.
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- adjective
aboveground
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Examples
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Controversies were frequent, and frequently resulted in subterranean quarrels and fights, and, of course, ended in superterranean lawsuits.
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Diversified forms of the symbol are delineated more or less artistically, according to the progress achieved in civilization at the period, on the ruined walls of temples and palaces, on natural rocks and sepulchral galleries, on the hoariest monoliths and the rudest statuary; on coins, medals, and vases of every description; and, in not a few instances, are preserved in the architectural proportions of subterranean as well as superterranean structures, of tumuli as well as fanes.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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