Subterranean vs. Underground — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Subterranean and Underground
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Subterranean
Situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground.
Underground
Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth
Underground caverns.
Underground missile sites.
Subterranean
Hidden; secret
Subterranean motives for murder.
Underground
Hidden or concealed; clandestine
Underground resistance to the tyrant.
Subterranean
Below ground, under the earth, underground.
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Underground
Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity
Underground trade in weapons.
Subterranean
(by extension) Secret, concealed.
Underground
Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment.
Subterranean
Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
Underground
A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government
"an underground of dissident intellectuals" (Kenneth L. Woodward).
Subterranean
Being or operating under the surface of the earth;
Subterranean passages
A subsurface flow of water
Underground
Chiefly British A subway system.
Subterranean
Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed);
Subterranean motives for murder
Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge
Underground
An avant-garde movement or publication.
Underground
Below the surface of the earth.
Underground
In secret; stealthily.
Underground
To situate under the ground
Workers undergrounding telephone lines.
Underground
(not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
Underground
(figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
These criminals operate through an underground network.
Underground
Outside the mainstream, especially unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
Underground music
Underground
Below the ground.
The tunnel goes underground at this point.
Underground
Secretly.
Underground
(geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
Underground
Syn of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
London Underground
Underground
A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
The French underground during World War II
Underground
A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
Underground
To route electricity distribution cables underground.
Underground
The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
A spirit raised from depth of underground.
Underground
A subway or subway system, especially in the United Kingdom.
Underground
A secret organization opposed to the prevailing government; as, the French underground during the Nazi occupation.
Underground
A group or movement holding unorthodox views in an environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in artistic circles.
Underground
Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
Underground
Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
Underground
Beneath the surface of the earth.
Underground
A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
Underground
Electric underground railway
Underground
Under the level of the ground;
Belowground storage areas
Underground caverns
Underground
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
Clandestine intelligence operations
Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
Hole-and-corner intrigue
Secret missions
A secret agent
Secret sales of arms
Surreptitious mobilization of troops
An undercover investigation
Underground resistance
Underground
Used of independent armed resistance forces;
Guerrilla warfare
Partisan forces
Underground
In or into hiding or secret operation;
The organization was driven underground
Underground
Beneath the surface of the earth;
Water flowing underground
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