above ground
/əˈbʌvˌɡɹaʊnd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.87 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Not dead and buried; alive.
prep_phrase
Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.
Example Sentences
- ""This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there."
- "Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals."
- "Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow."
- "More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world."
- "And they argue that if aboveground activists continue to express public sympathy for their underground counterparts […]"
- "But there is yet another interlocutor that precedes the underground culture of zines: the aboveground world of straight society."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈbʌvˌɡɹaʊnd/