Subway \Sub"way`\, n.
1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under
a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph
wires, etc., are conducted.
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2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by
electricity provided by an electric line running through
the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the
center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in
Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in
France or Russia) it is called the metro.
[PJC]
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Underground \Un"der*ground`\, a.
1. Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground
story or apartment.
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2. Done or occurring out of sight; secret. [Colloq.]
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Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under
Railroad.
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Underground \Un"der*ground`\, n.
1. The place or space beneath the surface of the ground;
subterranean space.
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A spirit raised from depth of underground. --Shak.
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2. a subway or subway system, especially in the United
Kingdom. [chiefly British]
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3. a secret organization opposed to the prevailing
government; as, the French underground during the Nazi
occupation.
[PJC]
4. a group or movement holding unorthodox views in an
environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in
artistic circles.
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Underground \Un"der*ground`\, adv.
Beneath the surface of the earth.
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underground
adj 1: under the level of the ground; "belowground storage areas";
"underground caverns" [syn: belowground]
2: 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"
[syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a),
hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet(p), secret,
surreptitious, undercover]
3: used of independent armed resistance forces; "guerrilla
warfare"; "partisan forces" [syn: guerrilla(a), guerilla(a),
irregular]
n 1: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or
occupation force [syn: resistance]
2: electric underground railway [syn: metro, subway, tube]
adv 1: in or into hiding or secret operation; "the organization was
driven underground"
2: beneath the surface of the earth; "water flowing
underground"
WordNet (r) 2.0
260 Moby Thesaurus words for "underground":
Amtrak, Charley, L, Trojan horse, VC, Vietcong, abstruse,
agreement to disagree, alienated, alienation, alternative,
antiestablishment, apostasy, at odds with, at rest,
at variance with, avant-garde, back door, back stairs, back way,
back-door, backstairs, baggage train, beclouded,
behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, blind,
bolt-hole, branch, breakaway, buried, bushfighter, bushwhacker,
cable railroad, cable railway, casual, choo-choo, clandestine,
close, clouded, cog railroad, cog railway, collaborationist,
collaborator, concealed, counter-culture, covered, covert,
covert way, covertly, crypto, deep-buried, difference, differing,
disaccord, disagreeing, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval,
disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience,
dissentient, dissenting, dissidence, dissident, diversity,
dropping out, eclipsed, el, electric, electric railway,
electric train, elevated, elevated railway, embankment,
escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, experimental, express,
express train, extremists, feeder, feeder line, feline,
fellow traveler, fifth column, fifth columnist, flier, fraternizer,
freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, furtive, goods train,
gravity-operated railway, guerillas, guerrilla, hid, hidden,
hidlings, hole-and-corner, horse railway, hugger-mugger,
in a cloud, in a corner, in a fog, in a whisper, in darkness,
in eclipse, in hidlings, in opposition, in purdah, in secret,
in the background, in the dark, in the wings, incommunicado,
insurgents, insurrectionists, interurban, irregular, junction,
latent, light railroad, lightning express, limited, line, local,
main line, maquis, maquisard, metro, milk train, minority opinion,
monorail, mysterious, nobody the wiser, nonagreement, nonassent,
nonconcurrence, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonconformity,
nonconsent, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, opposing,
opposition, parliamentary, parliamentary train, partisan,
passenger train, private, privy, quiet, rack railway,
rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, radical, rail,
rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, rattler, recondite,
recusance, recusancy, recusant, rejection, repudiation, resistance,
resistance fighter, resting in peace, revolutionary, roadbed,
roadway, rolling stock, saboteur, secession, secluded, secluse,
secret, secret exit, secret passage, secret staircase, secretly,
sectarian, sectary, security risk, sequestered, shifty, shuttle,
shuttle train, side door, sidetrack, siding, skulking, slinking,
slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, sotto voce, special, stealthy,
streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, sub rosa,
subterranean, subterraneous, subversive, subversives, subway,
sunken, surreptitious, switchback, terminal, terminus, track,
train, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line,
tube, turnout, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest,
under the breath, under the rose, under wraps, under-the-counter,
under-the-table, undercover, underfoot, underground fighter,
underground railroad, underground route, underhand, underhanded,
unknown, unobtrusive, variance, way train, with bated breath,
withdrawal, wrapped in clouds
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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