1. above ground - Adjective
2. above ground - Phrase
On or above the surface of the ground.
(figuratively) Not dead and buried; alive.
Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.
above-ground (comparative more above-ground, superlative most above-ground)
Alternative form of aboveground
above-ground
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. Jessamyn West
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! Faith Hill
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. Rick Riordan
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. Gene Simmons