Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: subterranean
IPA transcription: [səbtɚ'eɪniən]
Pronunciations of subterranean
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous, ulterior
    Meaning: 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"- Bertrand Russell
  • Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous
    Meaning: being or operating under the surface of the earth; "subterranean passages"; "a subsurface flow of water"
Usage examples
  • We were the only living creatures in this subterranean world.
  • But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.
  • My uncle reckoned upon a fresh supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none.
  • Some believe that the two deposits are connected by a subterranean passage and supplied from the same source.
  • But the subterranean vegetation was not confined to these fungi. Farther on rose groups of tall trees of colourless foliage and easy to recognise.
  • I saw a wide expanse of water, black as ink--a Stygian pool; but no rocks were visible, and it seemed as though I had been carried into a subterranean sea.
  • From this it seemed plainly evident that the waters had borne me into some vast cavern of unknown extent, which went under the mountains--a subterranean channel, whose issue I could not conjecture.
  • Aladdin had conducted himself in this manner several years, when the African magician, who had for some years dismissed him from his recollection, determined to inform himself with certainty whether he perished, as he supposed, in the subterranean cave or not.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Subterranean Homesick Blues, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Greek mythology, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Namibia, License CC BY-SA 4.0