Dictionary Definition
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]
Noun
1 a secret group organized to overthrow a
government or occupation force [syn: resistance]
1 in or into hiding or secret operation; "the
organization was driven underground"
2 beneath the surface of the earth; "water
flowing underground"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Underground
English
Adjective
- Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
- There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
- Hidden, furtive, secretive.
- These criminals operate through an underground network.
- Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.
Synonyms
Translations
below the ground
- Dutch: ondergrond
- Finnish: maanalainen
- French: souterrain , souterraine
- German: unterirdisch, Untergrund-
- Italian: sotterraneo , sotterranea
- Portuguese: subterrâneo , subterrânea
- Russian: подземный , подземная
- Spanish: subterráneo , subterránea
hidden, furtive
- Dutch: ondergrond
- Finnish: maanalainen
- French: souterrain , souterraine , clandestin , clandestine
- Russian: подпольный , подпольная
outside the mainstream
- Finnish: underground
- French: underground m, f and plural
- German: Untergrund-
- Russian: андерграунд
Adverb
- Below the ground.
- The tunnel goes underground at this point.
- Secretly.
Synonyms
Translations
below the ground
- Finnish: maan alla
- French: sous terre, sous la terre
- German: unter der Erde, unterirdisch
- Italian: sottoterra
Noun
- An underground railway.
- (with the) A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
- (with the) A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
Synonyms
- i-c underground railway metro, métro (the underground railway of Paris), subway (US), Tube (British - the underground railway of London)
- resistance
- avant-garde, counter-culture
Translations
underground railway See underground
railway
movement or organisation of people who resist
political convention
- Finnish: vastarintaliike
- French: résistance , mouvement clandestin , organisation clandestine
- German: Untergrundorganisation
- Italian: resistenza , movimento clandestino , organizzazione clandestina
- Portuguese: organização clandestina
- Spanish: movimiento clandestino , organización clandestina
movement or organisation of people who resist
artistic convention
- French: l'underground , mouvement d'avant-garde
- Italian: l'underground
See also
French
Adjective
underground- underground (outside the mainstream)
Noun
l'underground m- the underground (people who resist artistic convention)
Italian
Noun
l'underground m- the underground (people who resist artistic convention)
Extensive Definition
Underground may refer to:
- Underground rapid
transit system, urban railway
- London Underground, a metro system that covers the Greater London area
- Resistance movement, an opposition to an invader, a political position, or to a government
- Underground
Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by
19th century black slaves in the U.S. to escape to free states
- To go underground is to go hiding from the authorities, or from society
In film:
- Underground (1995 film), directed by Emir Kusturica
- Underground (1941 film), directed by Vincent Sherman
- Underground (1928 film), directed by Anthony Asquith
In music:
- Underground (Thelonious Monk album), a 1967 jazz recording by Thelonious Monk
- Underground (Keaggy album), a 1983 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy
- Underground (Analog Pussy album), a 2001 album by Analog Pussy
- Underground (Electric Prunes album), a 1967 album by The Electric Prunes
- Underground (soundtrack), soundtrack to the Emir Kusturica film by Goran Bregović
- Underground (song), a 1986 single by David Bowie featured in the film Labyrinth
- Underground (Gob song)
- Underground (Ben Folds Five song), a 1995 song by Ben Folds Five
- The Underground (concert venue), a Christian-affiliated concert venue, operated in the Greater Cincinnati area
- The Union Underground, an inactive Rock band associated with WWE
- Underground Operations, a Toronto-based independent punk rock record label
- Underground Resistance, a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan
- Linkin Park Underground, the official fan club of the band Linkin Park
In television:
- Underground (Stargate Atlantis), a Stargate Atlantis television series episode
- The Underground (TV series), a sketch comedy show starring Damon Wayans.
- TCM Underground, a late-night cult film showcase airing on Turner Classic Movies
In other media:
- Underground (stories), a collection of biographical short stories by Haruki Murakami
- Underground (role playing game), a satirical role playing game released by Mayfair Games in 1993
- Underground (book), a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus reconstructing the actions of a group of hackers
- Underground (novel), a 2006 Australian novel by Andrew McGahan
- Medal of Honor: Underground, the second in the Medal of Honor series by EA Games
- Need for Speed: Underground, a video game published by Electronic Arts
- Need for Speed: Underground 2, the sequel to Need for Speed: Underground
- Tony Hawk's Underground, a video game published by Activision Studios
- Tony Hawk's Underground 2, the sequel to THUG by Activision Studios
In subculture:
- Underground comix, small press or self-published comic books that began to appear in the US in the late 1960s
- Underground culture, a term to describe various alternative cultures
- Underground economy, commerce that is not taxed
- Underground film, cinema outside the commercial mainstream
- Underground hip hop, a style of hip hop music
- Underground living, living below the ground's surface
- Underground music, music that has a certain following despite a moderate commercial success
- Underground press, the alternative print media in the late 1960s and early 1970s
- UK underground, a 1960s countercultural movement in the United Kingdom
See also
- Underground Atlanta, a nightspot in Atlanta, Georgia
- Karst topography, a landscape of distinctive dissolution patterns often marked by underground drainages
- Organized crime, crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations
- Underground city, a network of tunnels that connect buildings, usually in the downtown area of a city
- Subterranean (disambiguation)
underground in German: Untergrund
underground in French: Underground
underground in Italian: Underground
underground in Dutch: Ondergrondse
underground in Japanese: アンダーグラウンド
underground in Romanian: Underground
underground in Serbian: Андерграунд
underground in Serbo-Croatian:
Underground
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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