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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
underground people en · NOUN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Any of the fairy folk, trolls, dwarfs, or other supernatural beings, that primarily live underground.
Gross superstition still prevails in most parts of Nordland, particularly regarding the underground people.
1872 November 14, Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the Country, San Francisco, page 425, column 1:The inhabitants of Rügen believe in three kinds of Dwarfs, or underground people, the White, the Brown, and the Black, so named from the colour of their several habiliments.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 281:
Synonyms
underground folk