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aboveground

a. 1 above the surface of the ground. 2 (context figurative English) Above the surface. n. The portion of society that is not underground.

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aboveground

adj. on or above the surface of the ground; "aboveground nuclear testing"; "surface instruments for detecting oil deposits"; "surface transportation"

Usage examples of "aboveground".

One fair afternoon, as if to clear their heads, Adams and two or three others climbed the bell tower of Christ Church, up a series of dimly lit, narrow ladders, past the great bells in their yokes, to a point a hundred feet aboveground, where a trap door led to the open air of the arched lantern, above which rose the church spire.

But there were blindfish and crabs and other animals that lived aboveground.

Philosophical Luddism when he heard it, Dundas hurried past, striding up a ramp of compacted soil and finally into the aboveground world.

Once he was aboveground, he moved through the darkness, avoiding the larger thoroughfares as he made his way toward the palace district.

He deduced that the assassins had found some remaining structure from the ancient fortress aboveground and had labored to remove traces of their lair.

Now that they were aboveground there was plenty to see, such as the extensive damp hole in the surface where Lake Woneapenigong used to be.

Besides, although the ones aboveground are too weathered to be very useful, maybe, if we dig, we can find stones on the spot.

Grand Marshall Beraton was standing beside a small defensive outpost at the aboveground level of the base headquarters, trying his best to think through the problem of where his duty really lay.

This creeklet, like so many others in Wild Country, probably ran aboveground for only a brief distance before plunging back to where it belonged: the measureless caverns of Edwards Plateau.

They have their regular roads and cross-roads, uphills and downhills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet aboveground, and by these they can travel even at night if necessary.

Other than the two demilunes outside, the four corner bastions, and the ramparts themselves, that's the setup aboveground.

Even if every fruiting body and all the mycelium aboveground were to die or be eaten, the main body of the individual would remain safe beneath the water.

Though he knew that the merpeople did not build aboveground, being adept in turning natural caves and crevices into the kind of living quarters they found most satisfactory, the barrenness of this particular rock top -was forbidding.

The Russians may be privately informed of the reasons for breaking the Moscow Treaty of 1963 forbidding aboveground nuclear testing.

The cabinet room here was a physical double of the one in her normal aboveground office, except of course the windows were not quite the same.