subterranean

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin subterraneus.

Adjective

subterranean (comparative more subterranean, superlative most subterranean)

  1. below ground, under the earth, underground
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:
      This is a story of north-south connection, and it begins with the fact that late in 1863 the Great Northern Railway completed a subterranean connection from its terminus at King's Cross to the tracks of the Metropolitan enabling the Great Northern to run through to the Met's easterly terminus at Farringdon Street.

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