deep-level
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Built or occurring underground at a relatively deep level.
Example Sentences
- "Plans were prepared under the auspices of the L.S.W.R. by W. R. Galbraith and R. F. Church, with J. F. Greathead in consultation, for a deep-level electric line on the tube principle, 1½ miles long, from a point under the main-line terminus at Waterloo to the eastern end of Queen Victoria Street, […]."
- "The deep-level Tubes required the invention of a tunnelling machine and a means of propelling trains through those tunnels that would not choke the passengers. The answer to the latter was electricity, and we have seen how electric traction had become established by the late nineteenth century."