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UK
/sˌʌbtɪɹˈeɪniən/
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[ US /səbtɝˈeɪniən/ ]
[ US /səbtɝˈeɪniən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being or operating under the surface of the earth
a subsurface flow of water
subterranean passages -
lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
subterranean motives for murder
looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge
How To Use subterranean In A Sentence
- It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
- Staff vehicles enter at the rear of the building by means of a ramp that leads down to a subterranean car park.
- I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- Wall painting can be broadly defined as any painting in which the support is the structure itself - whether a free-standing building, a subterranean tomb, or a rock-cut cave.
- Subterranean species are difficult to monitor since they appear seasonally and sporadically in seeps and springs or may not appear even during high water flows.
- Pity about the subterranean exhibition space.
- One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- He read it: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Mark Twain's Speeches
- Though long dry, these subterranean thoroughfares are literally everywhere beneath the city of London.