underground
IPA: ˈʌndɝgraʊnd
noun
- (geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
- (chiefly Britain) Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
- (UK, rail transport) The London Underground.
verb
- To route electricity distribution cables underground.
adjective
- (not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
- (figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
- (of music, art etc.) Outside the mainstream, especially unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
adverb
- Below the ground.
- Secretly.
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Examples of "underground" in Sentences
- I speak with several years experience actually working in underground mines.
- I hate how people have been going again underground artists just because of the lyrics.
- His 1957 essay “Underground films: a bit of male truth” coined the term underground film.
- The term underground was used as symbolical of the secret manner in which our friends had to work in order to help us.
- In the last six years, I have witnessed negotiations for the sale of slaves on four continents, in underground brothels, in front line war zones, on suburban streets.
- Prices are high — about $20 for a lunch with fish from the fixed menu — largely, the owner says, because she can't find ingredients anywhere except in underground markets, where prices are steep.
- NEW YORK — Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as “Cabot Wright Begins” and “Eustace Chisholm and the Works” inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died.
- I have never approved of the very public manner in which some of our western friends have conducted what they call the underground railroad, but which, I think, by their open declarations, has been made most emphatically the upperground railroad.
- And about the underground religion, my understanding is that, well, those people who were going what we call underground or having covered religious activities because of the fear of being some negative effects on them -- I don't quite understand why those people should do this kind of thing.
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