aboveground

adjective

above·​ground ə-ˈbəv-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce aboveground (audio)
1
: located or occurring on or above the surface of the ground
2
: existing, produced, or published by or within the establishment
aboveground movies
aboveground adverb

Examples of aboveground in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yamamoto’s 2018 winning design for the Taoyuan Museum of Art in Taiwan comprises two buildings with green inclined roofs connected with an aboveground corridor. Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024 Designed by famous architect Albert Kahn, the structure’s original first-floor atrium has been enlarged central atrium to extend through all three aboveground floors. Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024 In areas where an already dry climate is getting drier because of climate change, people have less aboveground water to rely on, and so they’re forced to over-extract aquifers. Matt Simon, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024 The new underground stations will be located at 28th Street/Little Portugal, Downtown San Jose and Diridon Station — while an aboveground platform will come to Santa Clara near the city’s Caltrain terminal. Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024 Made of thick concrete, the aboveground shelters have no doors to allow for fast entry because in these parts, incoming-rocket alerts typically give only a few seconds’ warning. Isabel Kershner Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023 In the early evening of Nov. 2, around the time Rania and the girls were usually aboveground having tea, a strike hit the house. Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023 There were the aboveground tombs known as chullpas; the cliffside sarcophagi for VIPs; the cave burials. Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023 At the Cementerio Municipal 1 in Aguas Buenas, workers installed a new aboveground tomb on a recent afternoon. Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of aboveground was in the 14th century

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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aboveground. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

aboveground

adjective
above·​ground ə-ˈbəv-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce aboveground (audio)
: located or happening on or above the surface of the ground
an aboveground swimming pool

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