Definition of below

"below" in the adverb sense

1. below, at a lower place, to a lower place, beneath

in or to a place that is lower

2. below, infra

in writing) at a later place

"see below"

"vide infra"

3. downstairs, down the stairs, on a lower floor, below

on a floor below

"the tenants live downstairs"

4. under, below

further down

"see under for further discussion"

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Quotations for below

All of heaven we have below. [ Addison ]

Praise a hill, but keep below. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Crabbe ]

Neither above nor below his business. [ Tacitus ]

For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below.
Is ever first to quail and start
From slightest pain or equal foe. [ Eliza Cook ]

Eternity! How know we but we stand
On the precipitous and crumbling verge
Of Time even now. Eternity below? [ Abraham Coles ]

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of heaven below! [ Edmund Waller ]

Then fill each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Say first, of God above or man below.
What can we reason but from what we know? [ Pope ]

Sweet is the air with the budding haws,
and the valley stretching for miles below
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees,
as if just covered with lightest snow. [ Longfellow ]

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. [ Homer ]

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove,
And men below and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. [ Scott ]

He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below. [ Byron ]

Love betters what is best,
Even here below, but more in heaven above. [ Wordsworth ]

Mystery hovers over all things here below. [ Lamartine ]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

What tragic wastes of gloom
Curtain the soul that strives and sins below! [ R. Garnet ]

All below is strength, and all above is grace. [ Dryden ]

Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Alexander Pope ]

He is below himself who is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]

The things that are below us are nothing to us. [ Proverb ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Mediocrity is mean, and below an exalted spirit. [ Proverb ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below? [ Shelley ]

Alexander was below a man, when he affected to be a god. [ Proverb ]

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow;
And many a beautiful pearl
Lies hid in its depths below. [ Heine ]

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

Old Time, who changes all below to wean men gently for the grave. [ Mrs. Norton ]

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability. [ Montesquieu ]

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. [ Tupper ]

He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place. [ Sir Henry Saville ]

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. [ Stanislaus ]

He that thinks his business below him, will always be above his business. [ Proverb ]

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

The only happy author in this world fs he who is below the care of reputation. [ Washington Irving ]

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. [ Addison ]

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below. [ Beattie ]

You will as often find a great man above, as below, his reputation, when once you come to know him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. [ Lamb ]

Paradise must be a tiresome place if it is peopled only by those saintly souls whose company we so dread here below. [ De Finod ]

A grandam's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother; they are as children but one step below. [ William Shakespeare ]

You have to go below the surface of words and actually feel them. This helps you choose the just-right word for your copy. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]

We see, though ordered for the best, permitted laurels grace the lawless brow, the unworthy raised, the worthy cast below. [ Dryden ]

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]

Of the things which man can make or do here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy, are the things that we call books. [ Carlyle ]

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 Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you. [ Johnson ]

Innocence and diligence are inseparable companions, and only those who are active in the discharge of their duties here below are blessed from on high. [ Magoon ]

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet in liberal art. [ Steele ]

Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]

Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society. [ Steele ]

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. [ Macaulay ]

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed. [ Fichte ]

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. [ Carlyle ]

In the moral world nothing is lost, as in the material world nothing is annihilated. All our thoughts and all our sentiments here below, are but the beginning of sentiments and thoughts that will be finished elsewhere. [ Joubert ]

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. [ Carlyle ]

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

below in Scrabble®

The word below is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters below:

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below in Words With Friends™

The word below is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

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