below
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- adverb
- /bɪˈloʊ/
:
debajo de
- She hid her treasures in a box below the floorboards.
- just below
- feet below
- pressure from below
I'm going to have to put it below in our current ranking.
- I'm going to have to put it below in our current ranking.
Examples
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The world below must remain your home.
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What nobody knew was that down below, in the ship's dark lower levels, water was gushing in.
Academic text (2011) -
It's going to be all the values below the line.
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So enter at the link below for a chance to win.
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Let us know in the comments below who won this round.
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The video for that is down below in the video description.
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We placed him the floor below, next to the emergency exit.
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Below our feet is the vacuum of space.
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Jacob peers at the courtyard eighteen stories below and watches the patterns of early morning movement.
Fiction book (1990) -
You can see the fish swimming below the surface of the lake.
Synonyms
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On or to a lower floor of a building, often the floor below you
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Beneath the surface of the ground, under soil or rock
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Directly below or on the bottom of something
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In a lower position than something else
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Under something or in a lower position than it
Under the ground surface
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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An action or remark that is unfair and hurtful, especially when it attacks someone's personal life
- Archaic
To be in a lower social or work position and have other people treat you as less important
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
The word below comes from old parts be- meaning 'by' and low meaning 'not high', the same root as the word low. So to be below something is to be 'under' it or in a lower place.