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Definition: SUBTERRANEOUS |
SUBTERRANEOUSAdjective1. Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage. |
Date "SUBTERRANEOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Depth | Adjective: deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene; underground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SUBTERRANEOUS |
| English words defined with "SUBTERRANEOUS": Bletonism ♦ Hypogeum ♦ Mine ♦ Subterrene ♦ Well water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUBTERRANEOUS": FAIR. (references) |
| "SUBTERRANEOUS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SUBTERRANEOUS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
record subterraneous | 3 |
subterraneous | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SUBTERRANEOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nëntokësor (subterranean, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podzemní (subterranean, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπόγειοσ (subterranean, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | föld alatti (subterranean, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubterraneoussay subterrâneo (cave, subterranean). (various references) подземный (subterranean, underground). (various references) podzemni (subterranean, underground). (various references) subterráneo (subterranean, underground). (various references) yeraltı (subterranean, underground, undersoil), toprak altındaki (subterranean, underground), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen). (various references) секретний (back room, classified, confidential, hole-and-corner, hush hush, private, privy, secret, sensitive, underhand, underneath), підземний (subterranean, underground). (various references) bí mật (backstairs, clandestine, close, cryptic, cryptically, hush-hush, inward, inwards, private, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUBTERRANEOUS": subterraneously. (additional references) | |
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"SUBTERRANEOUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subterraneus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: burrstones, saunterers. | |
-4 letters: absenters, abstruser, anestrous, arbutuses, autobuses, banterers, barrenest, beauteous, bourtrees, burnouses, burrstone, burstones, earstones, rearouses, reasoners, renatures, resonates, retrousse, runabouts, saboteurs, saunterer, sauternes, strenuous, suborners, susurrant, tabourers, tenebrous, treasures, trousseau, tubenoses, tuberoses. | |
-5 letters: aborters, absenter, abstruse, anestrus, anserous, antrorse, anureses, arousers, arsenous, assenter, assentor, asserter, assertor, assorter, austerer, banterer, bareness, baroness. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: subterraneously. | |
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