Her skirt reached below her knees The town is situated on a hillside, with a river running below The sun dipped below the horizon
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A lieutenant is below a captain
Adverb the pencil rolled off the desk and fell to the floor below
The pilot looked down at the sea far below We heard the elevator stop at the floor below. We use below most commonly as a preposition meaning ‘lower than’ It has a similar meaning to under
The opposite of below is above We use it when there is no contact between people or things … in formal writing, we use below to refer to something that we will mention or show later Below, under, beneath indicate position in some way lower than something else
Below implies being in a lower plane
Below the horizon, the water line Under implies being lower in a perpendicular line The book is under the chair. Below can be a preposition or an adverb
In both cases, it describes the position of something relative to something else, namely, something that is underneath another object. Definition of below adverb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Discover everything about the word below in english
