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prépositionadverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//bɪˈləʊ//
  • États-Unis//bɪˈloʊ//
  • Inde//bɪˈloː(w)//
  • //bɪˈlaː//

Lower in spatial position than.

préposition

  1. 1

    Lower in spatial position than.

    One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

    The treasure is buried two meters below the surface.

    The marmalade is on the shelf below the bread.

  2. 2

    Lower than in value, price, rank, concentration, etc.

    one degree below kings

    The temperature is below zero.

    Liverpool are below Manchester City in the Premier League.

  3. 3

    Downstream of.

    The River Thames is tidal below Teddington Lock.

  4. 4

    South of.

    Sudan is below Egypt.

  5. 5

    Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; 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

    Such petty behavior is below me.

  6. 6

    Downstage of.

    Below the sofa is a low, round coffee table.

Étymologie

From Middle English bilooghe, equivalent to be- + low. Compare also earlier Middle English alogh, alow, aloȝ, alowe (“below”), benethen (“beneath”), Dutch omlaag (“downwards”).

adverbe

  1. 1

    In or to a lower place.

    The town is situated on a hillside, with a river running below.

    He was pulled below by a sea monster.

    But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].

  2. 2

    In or to a lower place. On or to a lower storey.

    She lives below, on the ground floor.

  3. 3

    In or to a lower place. On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.

    The captain went below to inspect the engine.

    the landlubbers lying down below

  4. 4

    Later in the same text.

    This point is explained below.

    By their execution hereof, the Parties incur a legal obligation to pass consideration under this Loan Contract as is set forth below.

  5. 5

    Below zero.

    It was forty degrees below.

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).