Our apartment is below theirs He could hear people shouting below his window Her skirt reached below her knees
The sun dipped below the horizon
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.
Discover everything about the word below in english Definition of below adverb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Below is primarily a preposition and adverb, used to indicate a position lower than a specified point or level.
In or to a lower place
On or to a lower deck on a ship or boat Something that's below is underneath If your kite is flying below your brother's, it means his kite is above, or higher than, yours Anything that lies lower than some other object is below it — a basement is below the first floor of a house, and the ocean floor is below the water's surface.
