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subjacent

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9 lettersPronunciation /sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abcejnstuStarts with SEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lying nearby but lower

Word origin

From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).

Used in a sentence

  • In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
  • Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
  • [in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were ... owned by the first defenders.

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