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Below   /bɪlˈoʊ/  /bilˈoʊ/   Listen
adverb
Below  adv.  
1.
In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. "Lord Marmion waits below."
2.
On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. "The fairest child of Jove below."
3.
In hell, or the regions of the dead. "What business brought him to the realms below."
4.
In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
5.
In some part or page following.


preposition
Below  prep.  
1.
Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
2.
Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings."
3.
Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. "They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain,... how below all history the persons and their actions were." "Who thinks no fact below his regard."
Synonyms: Underneath; under; beneath.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Below" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand-cart full of young trees wrapped in burlap, passed across the lawn below and waved ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... stories down, and a hard pavement below that window. I'd advise you, Agnew, not to pitch yourself out of that on your head. It would probably give ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... is of stone, painted white, with an over-hangingroof to shelter it from storms. In a niche in front is a small image of the Saviour, in a sitting posture; and an inscription, upon a marble tablet below, says that it was placed there by Longinus Walther and his wife Barbara Juliana von Hainberg; themselves long since peacefully crumbled to dust, side by side in ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... was very thick, intensely black and long, cut squarely off just below the lowest points of her shoulder blades. Heavy brows and long lashes—eyes too—were all intensely, vividly black. Her skin was tanned to a deep ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... bedside overcome by sudden tears. But whoever dies, life goes on the same, our interests and necessities brook little interference. Meal-times are always fixed times, and when father and daughter met in the parlour—it was just below the room in which Mrs. Innes was dying—Evelyn asked why her mother had looked at ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore


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