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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



... below, and when you're ready, come down three flights of stairs to the dining-room, and I'll give ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells
... put down her knitting and listened. She sat up-stairs now, making her rheumatism an excuse for avoiding the rooms below. Her interests had insensibly adjusted themselves to the perspective of her neighbors' lives, and she wondered—as the bell re-echoed—if it could mean that Mrs. Heminway's baby had come. Conjecture had time to ripen into certainty, and she was limping ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton
... be provided for. What Mr. Churchill calls "diseased industries" can be cut off from the main body, or restored to some measure of health. The State can set up a minimum standard of health and wage, below which it will not allow its citizens to sink; it can step in and dispense employment and restorative force under strictly specified conditions, to a small body of more or less "sick" workers; it can supply security for a far greater, less dependent, and more efficient mass of ...
— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill
... horror-stricken official turned angrily, the figure of a man glided from the shadow of the stairs below the organ loft, and vanished through the open door. Before the sexton could follow, the figure of a woman slipped out of the same portal and with a hurried glance after the first retreating figure, turned in the opposite direction ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... now, they tell me. My father, Makedama, was chief of the tribe, and his kraal was built on the crest of a hill, but I was not the son of his head wife. One evening, when I was still little, standing as high as a man's elbow only, I went out with my mother below the cattle kraal to see the cows driven in. My mother was very fond of these cows, and there was one with a white face that would follow her about. She carried my little sister Baleka riding on her hip; Baleka was a baby ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard


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