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# underground

«underground» in Mova's school dictionary: **below the surface of the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (underground); adverb (underground); noun (the underground)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Underground means below the surface of the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#m1)

2) The underground is a railway that runs in tunnels under a city (in London called the Tube; in the USA the subway). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#m2)

3) Underground can describe something secret or hidden from the authorities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons roots, burrows, caves, water and many animals (moles, rabbits, worms) live underground; coal and oil are found underground. In everyday life people travel on the underground. In history, people hid in underground shelters or ran underground groups. Phrases: go underground, underground station, underground train, underground water.

### examples

- Moles live underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x1)
- Carrots grow underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x2)
- We took the underground to the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x3)
- Mind the gap on the underground platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x4)
- Rabbits dig underground tunnels called burrows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x5)
- Water flows underground in some caves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x6)
- Miners work deep underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x7)
- During the war people sheltered in underground stations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x8)
- "They are playing at work underground, like moles," said she. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/#x9)

### note

It can be an adjective (an underground cave) or an adverb (they live underground). «The Underground» with a capital U often means the London railway. In the USA it is the «subway»; in British English a «subway» is a tunnel for walking under a road. Never go into old mines or drains — they can flood or collapse.

### In the corpora

- [Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/9/)
- [Baby hares are born furry with open eyes and can hop soon after birth, while baby rabbits are born bare and blind underground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/7/)
- [A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/7/)
- [Peanuts are seeds that grow in pods underground like peas and beans, and some people are badly allergic to them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/18/)
- [Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «underground» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underground/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.