BELOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does below mean? 

• BELOW (adverb)
  The adverb BELOW has 4 senses:

1. in or to a place that is lower

2. (in writing) at a later place

3. on a floor below

4. further down

  Familiarity information: BELOW used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELOW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or to a place that is lower

Synonyms:

at a lower place; below; beneath; to a lower place

Antonym:

above (in or to a place that is higher)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(in writing) at a later place

Synonyms:

below; infra

Context example:

vide infra

Antonym:

above ((in writing) at an earlier place)

Sense 3

Meaning:

On a floor below

Synonyms:

below; down the stairs; downstairs; on a lower floor

Context example:

the tenants live downstairs

Sense 4

Meaning:

Further down

Synonyms:

below; under

Context example:

see under for further discussion

 Context examples 

“A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,” replied Little Red-Cap.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I will, declared the Scarecrow, for, if you found that you could not jump over the gulf, Dorothy would be killed, or the Tin Woodman badly dented on the rocks below.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The newly discovered reservoir carries hot and partly molten rock upward from the top of Yellowstone's hotspot plume—about 40 miles below the surface.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

The average Arctic sea ice extent for June was 350,000 square miles (7.7 percent) below the 1981–2010 average and 60,000 square miles larger than the smallest sea ice extent that occurred in 2010.

(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)

That hot solar plasma rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools, then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

In advanced stages of gum disease, plaque spreads below the gum line, prompting an inflammatory response in which the tissues and bone that support teeth are broken down.

(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They found that Greenland's glaciers flowing into the ocean are grounded deeper below sea level than previously measured.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

Saturn has been in your house of earned income since December 2018 and has been teaching you to be frugal and to buy items below retail whenever possible.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Sometimes we received wine and victuals from below, which were drawn up by pulleys.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a sharp twenty minutes, but we beat her people down below, made the hatches fast on them, and towed her into Seaham.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)