subterrane
subterrane adjective: synonym of subterranean.
Adjective
subterrane (not comparable)
- Synonym of subterranean.
- By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the Times from the Death of Manasses to the Destruction of Ierusalem”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre...
- The waters stir, / Not as with air, but by some subterrane / And rocking power of the internal world.1824, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed; a Drama, London: […] J[ohn] and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, part I, scene I, page 13
- Synonyms:
- subterranean
Noun
subterrane (plural subterranes)
- A cave or underground room.
- While these awful scenes were being enacted in the subterranes of the holy inquisition […]1857, George W.M. Reynolds, Wagner, The Wehr-Wolf, London: John Dicks
Synonyms of subterrane
Forms of subterrane
| plural | subterranes |
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Origin of subterrane
From Latin subterrāneus. Doublet of subterraneous.
Questions about subterrane
- What does subterrane mean?
- Subterrane means synonym of subterranean.
- What part of speech is subterrane?
- Subterrane can be an adjective or a noun.
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