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/ˈəndərgrˌaʊnd/ Listen

adjective

Underground adj.

Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.

Done or occurring out of sight; secret. (Colloq.)

Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under Railroad.

noun

Underground n.

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. "A spirit raised from depth of underground."

A subway or subway system, especially in the United Kingdom. (chiefly British)

A secret organization opposed to the prevailing government; as, the French underground during the Nazi occupation.

A group or movement holding unorthodox views in an environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in artistic circles.

adverb

Underground adv. Beneath the surface of the earth.

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Etymology of 'Underground'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Underground" Quotes from Famous Books

... of reach of its underground retreat, it "clews" up like the hedgehog, and some species of the South American armadillos—to which last animal it bears a considerable resemblance on account of its scaly coat ...

— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid

... experiments have shown some rodents to have, can not be stated without precise experimentation. Marked ability to follow a maze would not be at all surprising in view of the labyrinthine character of the underground passages which make up ...

— Life History of the Kangaroo Rat • Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor

... France not described in any of my former works. The marvels of French travel, no more than the chefs-d'oeuvre of French literature, are unlimited. Short of saluting the tricolour on Mont Blanc, or of echoing the Marseillaise four hundred and odd feet underground in the cave of Padirac, I think I may fairly say that I have exhausted France as a wonder-horn. But quiet beauties and homely graces have also their seduction, just as we turn with a sense of relief from "Notre Dame de Paris" or "Le Pere Goriot," to a domestic story by ...

— East of Paris - Sketches in the Gatinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... so much to tell them that she hardly gave them time to reply: she used to answer for them. She was a silent chatterer: she had inherited her mother's volubility: but her fluency was drawn off in inward speeches like a stream disappearing underground.—Of course she was a party to the conspiracy against her uncle with the object of procuring his conversion: she rejoiced over every inch of the house wrested by the spirit of light from the spirit of darkness: and on more ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

... on the simplest fare; bread, cheese, and a raw onion make an average meal. In some districts the weavers have to work in underground huts, for the air at the surface is so dry that the threads would lose all their elasticity out of doors. In these underground places the weavers produce enough moisture by keeping at hand utensils ...

— Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern - A Handbook for Ready Reference • Rosa Belle Holt

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