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souterrain

[ soo-tuh-reyn, soo-tuh-reyn ]

noun

Chiefly Archaeology.
  1. a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.


souterrain

/ ˈ²õ³Ü˳Ùəˌ°ù±ðɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. archaeol an underground chamber or passage
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of souterrain1

1725–35; < French: literally, underground, calque of Latin ²õ³Ü²ú³Ù±ð°ù°ùÄå²Ô±ð³Ü²õ; sous-sous, terrain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of souterrain1

C18: from French
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Example Sentences

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Selon les plans du promoteur immobilier, ce bout de terrain deviendrait l’entrée d’un parking souterrain.

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The diggers of the souterrain had been executed by their own priest-king, to keep the secret of it All that was in sn millennium.

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There is always resistance to borrowing foreign words into French and "souterrain" is sometimes used instead, but "tunnel" was preferred by the builders of the St Etienne-Lyons railway as early as the the 1820s, and anyway it is French in origin and actually looks quite French.

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What to buy: The EP Egypt was released this week by Souterrain Transmissions.

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La caverne du bandit avait �t� d�couverte et forc�e par quelque p�tre courageux, qui y avait p�n�tr� vaillamment, malgr� la terreur que ce lieu souterrain et formidable inspirait, y avait surpris le voleur et l'avait �trangl�.

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