to a lower place
- idiom
:
a un lugar más bajo
- Everybody diligently attends to his task and enjoys doing it just as water flows to a lower place.
Examples
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The path leads down to the riverbank, where we can relax by the water.
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He will confine us to a lower place so others will feel more powerful.
Academic text (2010) -
As the sun set, we watched the light fade down the hillside.
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The elevator took us down to the basement level of the building.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
At a lower level or amount than before
596
1.0
On or to a lower floor of a building, often the floor below you
484
1.0
A place that is under something, for example a room or floor
149
1.0
Directly below or on the bottom of something
51
1.0
Toward a lower place or level
42
1.0
In a lower position than something else
24
1.0
Under something or in a lower position than it
9
1.0
Toward a lower place, level, or position
1
3.9
In a direction from a higher level to a lower level
1
7.7
Lower in the body than another part
In a place that is lower than another place
Antonyms
How Low
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'to' marks direction, 'a' is an article, 'lower' describes relative position, and 'place' denotes a location, so the meaning 'in or to a place that is lower' follows directly from the parts. This is a common preposition + noun-phrase pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
To a lower place creates a simple picture: imagine carrying a box down the stairs to a spot below, with the words lower and place showing the move down. So, it means 'in or to a place that is lower in position or level'.