Underground - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌʌndərˈɡraʊnd|  American pronunciation of the word underground
Brit.  |ˌʌndəˈɡraʊnd|  British pronunciation of the word underground

noun

- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force (syn: resistance)
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) (syn: metro, subway, tube)
in Paris the subway system is called the 'metro' and in London it is called the 'tube' or the 'underground'

adverb

- in or into hiding or secret operation
the organization was driven underground
- beneath the surface of the earth
water flowing underground

adjective

- under the level of the ground (syn: belowground)
underground caverns
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods (syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover)
underground resistance

Extra examples

They had been living underground as fugitives.

I've ridden on the New York subway, the Paris Metro, and the London Underground.

...joined the underground while still a teenager...

The drugs are supplied through an underground network.

She loves the city's underground music scene.

The car park is underground.

This animal spends most of its life underground.

Their secret offices were located deep underground.

He is the overlord of the underground gambling industry.

Unlike most butterflies, this species pupates underground.

I've been on both the New York subway and the Underground in London.

Terrorists have been setting off bombs in underground trains.

Alice carried a map of the London Underground in her head.

We parked in an underground garage near the hotel.

The main problem for engineers was the location of underground rivers in the area.

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