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Meaning of SUBTERRANEAN

Pronunciation:  `subtu'reyneeun

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  lying beneath what is revealed or avowed, especially being deliberately concealed; "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell
  2. [adj]  being or operating under the surface of the earth; "subterranean passages"; "a subsurface flow of water"
 

SUBTERRANEAN is a 12 letter word that starts with S.

 

 Synonyms: covert, subsurface, ulterior
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sub`ter*ra"ne*an\, Subterraneous
 

 

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