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under ground

under ground is the alternative form of underground.

Meaning of underground

Adverb

underground (comparative more underground, superlative most underground)

  1. Below the ground.
    • The tunnel goes underground at this point.
    Synonyms:
    belowground
  2. Secretly.

See all 11 meanings of underground

Forms of under ground

comparativemore under ground
superlativemost under ground

Questions about under ground

What is under ground the alternative form of?
Under ground is the alternative form of underground.

Words near under ground in the dictionary

  1. under cover of darkness
  2. under cover of night
  3. under erasure
  4. under fire
  5. under glass
  6. under ground
  7. under hack
  8. under hatches
  9. under lock and key
  10. under no circumstance
  11. under no circumstances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: under ground (page history and authors); underground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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