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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground.
  2. adj. Hidden; secret: subterranean motives for murder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth or under ground.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. below ground, under the earth, underground

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. being or operating under the surface of the earth
  2. adj. lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)

Etymologies

  1. Latin subterrāneus : sub-, sub- + terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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