Subterrane

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cave or underground room.

    "While these awful scenes were being enacted in the subterranes of the holy inquisition […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of subterranean. not-comparable

    "By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]"

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bunkerburrowcavecaverncovedugout

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"By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]"

Etymology

From Latin subterrāneus. Doublet of subterraneous.

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