Underground

German Meaning

Untergrund

Untergrundbahn

Untergrundbewegung

U-Bahn

unterirdisch

English Meaning

  1. Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth: underground caverns; underground missile sites.
  2. Hidden or concealed; clandestine: underground resistance to the tyrant.
  3. Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity: underground trade in weapons.
  4. Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment.
  5. A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government: "an underground of dissident intellectuals” ( Kenneth L. Woodward).
  6. Chiefly British A subway system.
  7. An avant-garde movement or publication.
  8. Below the surface of the earth.
  9. In secret; stealthily.
  10. To situate under the ground: workers undergrounding telephone lines.