Underground

See also: underground

English

An older-style Underground roundel at Arnos Grove station.

Proper noun

the Underground

1. (UK, rail transport) The London Underground.

   Synonym: Tube

   • 1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:

     Although some of the stations on ' The Branch ' have not, as yet, suffered any considerable structural alterations, all are now equipped with the familiar Underground type name boards, and as a result the imposing titles of G.N. days have been ruthlessly curtailed.

   • 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:

     Heathrow has a 28% share of passengers arriving by rail, two-thirds of whom come by the Underground.

Related terms

• Overground

Further reading

• London Underground on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English underground

Noun

Underground m (strong, genitive Undergrounds, no plural)

1. (art) underground

   Synonym: Untergrund

Declension

Declension of Underground [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Underground
genitive	eines	des	Undergrounds
dative	einem	dem	Underground
accusative	einen	den	Underground

Further reading

• “Underground” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Underground” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Underground” in Duden online
• “Underground” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Underground on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de