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Underground   /ˈəndərgrˌaʊnd/   Listen
adjective
Underground  adj.  
1.
Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
2.
Done or occurring out of sight; secret. (Colloq.)
Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under Railroad.


noun
Underground  n.  
1.
The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. "A spirit raised from depth of underground."
2.
A subway or subway system, especially in the United Kingdom. (chiefly British)
3.
A secret organization opposed to the prevailing government; as, the French underground during the Nazi occupation.
4.
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Underground" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the trackless plateau, but halfway on the range trail was a camping-place, Las Cascadas, where a spring which spouted in a tiny cascade welcomed the traveller. Under irrigation, most of the land for the whole stretch between the two towns would be fertile. There was said to be a big underground run at Agua Fria that could be pumped at ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... his base brother, Wilhelm. Karl is really too good for this world. He objects to atrocities and refuses at the risk of his own life to shoot innocent Belgian villagers. Being imprisoned, he escapes by means of a secret sliding panel and an underground passage which leads him, not immediately, but after many vicissitudes, to America. There he is joined by his faithful Edith, who defies the Gulf caused by the War, and marries him. Mr. SPENDER appears to have been in some doubt as to whether he should write the story of two souls or ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917 • Various
... and the rats and 'orses. At last every house and garden was full of dead bodies. London way, you couldn't go for the smell of there, and we 'ad to move out of the 'I street into that villa we got. And all the water run short that way. The drains and underground tunnels took it. Gor' knows where the Purple Death come from; some say one thing and some another. Some said it come from eatin' rats and some from eatin' nothin'. Some say the Asiatics brought it from some 'I place, Thibet, I think, where it never did nobody much 'arm. All I know is it come ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... as Andrew had understood for a long time, a sort of underground world of criminals even here on the mountain desert. Otherwise the criminals could not have existed for even a moment in the face of the organized strength of lawful society. Several times in the course of ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand
... the Officers visited a poor old woman who was very ill. She lived in an underground back kitchen, with hardly a ray of light and never a ray of sunshine. Her bed was made up on some egg boxes. She had no one to look after her, except a drunken daughter, who very often, when drunk, used to knock the poor old woman about very badly. The Officers ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth


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