Definition of "belowground" [belowground]

• Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As for force fields, we can also set up a grid that would throw a blanket over the entire building above- and belowground."
• "No windows anywhere, being that I was belowground."
• "Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits."