subterranean
/ˌsʌbtəˈɹeɪniən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Below ground, under the earth, underground.
noun
Someone or something that is subterranean.
Example Sentences
- "Again the bearers took up the coffin, and cold and damp the subterranean air came from the opened vault. The tapers were lowered, and shed a ghastly light on the rows of piled coffins, and the moisture glittering on the walls."
- "And you were in the parking lot / Subterranean by your own design"
- "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."
- "The best way to neutralise its [nuclear waste's] threat is to move it into a subterranean vault, of the kind the UK plans to build later this century. Once interred, the waste will be left alone for tens of thousands of years, while its radioactivity cools."
- "Today is that most sacred of American holidays. A day when people from all walks of life set aside their differences and focus their undivided attention on the prognostication abilities of a subterranean rodent."
- "The subterranean tool of buying rigged opinion polling and media coverage is outlined in remarkable detail in chat exchanges recovered from the cellphone of one of Mr. Kurz’s closest allies and friends, Thomas Schmid."