above ground

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   On or above the surface of the ground.

   • "This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there.
   • Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
2. 2

   Not dead and buried

   Not dead and buried; alive.

   • Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow.
3. 3

   Not of or relating to the social or political underground

   Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.

   • More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world.
   • And they argue that if aboveground activists continue to express public sympathy for their underground counterparts […]
   • But there is yet another interlocutor that precedes the underground culture of zines: the aboveground world of straight society.

The neighborhood

• antonymbelowgroundantonym(s) of
• antonymunderground
• antonymsubterranean