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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

underearth en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From under- + earth.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Beneath the earth; underground.
    • The dragon from under-earth, the nightmarish destroyer, lay destroyed as well, utterly without life. 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 89:
    • The sleep-healing takes place, shortly before the end of the poem, in the "Cave of Quietude," an underearth cavern that is environed by "hell." 1954, Keats-Shelley Journal, volumes 3-4, page 8: