Noun: souterrain
| Singular | souterrain |
| Plural | souterrains |
Sample Sentences
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Now when my son saw that I separated them, he secretly built this souterrain and furnished it and transported to it victuals, even as thou seest; and, when I had gone out a-sporting, came here with his sister and hid from me. [1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 11:]
Nouns inflected like souterrain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French souterrain, from sous (“under”) + terrain (“ground”). See: French Nouns '
souterrain'.