Definition of Below

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Definition of Below

Below

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.

Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.

In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.

In hell, or the regions of the dead.

In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.

In some part or page following.

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Below Quotations

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
George W. Bush

Below Translations

below in Afrikaans is onder, onderaan
below in Danish is derunder, under
below in Dutch is beneden, daarbeneden, onder
below in Finnish is alla
below in German is unterhalb
below in Hungarian is lejjebb, le, vmi alatt, alant, alul, alulra, lent
below in Italian is sotto, abbasso, successivo, sotto
below in Latin is subter supter, infra, inferne, infra, inferus
below in Norwegian is under, ned
below in Portuguese is abaixo, sob
below in Spanish is abajo, debajo, so

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