beneath

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I went to the Indigo bookstore this weekend and I bought this cool book that teaches you Italian through sticky notes - there are 303 sticky notes with colourful, simple pictures and the Italian word beneath it.

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  1. adverb In a lower place; below.
  2. adverb Underneath.
  3. preposition Lower than; below: a drawer beneath a cabinet.

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  • Yet all over that country street signs and business billboards are appearing in English, beneath the Amharic.
  • It is made of solid gold with, in the center, a platinum wreath with crossed swords, beneath which is the number 2000 in tiny diamonds. —  THE BANTAM WAR BOOK SERIES
  • Those who show the tomb of the Magi say its treasures are still worth a million of dollars; but people who go to see sights must see them Near the shrine is a slab in the pavement, beneath which is buried the heart of Marie de Medicis, wife of Henry IV., of France, her body having been sent to France. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
  • It was a clever lithographic copy of an ordinary "willow pattern" plate; a homely piece of crockery, broken and riveted, beneath which is inscribed: "To the Subscribers to the Art Union this beautiful plate (from the original in the possession of the Artist) is presented, as the finest specimen of British Art, by Punch_." —  The History of "Punch"
  • "But there's the name beneath, Cecily Wayne. —  Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English binethe, from Old English beneothan : be, by; see by1 + neothan, below.

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  1. from Middle English benethe, binethe, binethen, adverb and preposition, from Anglo-Saxon beneothan, binithan, preposition (= OFries. binetha = Dutch beneden = Low German benedden = German benieden), from be, by, + neothan, nithan, neothane (=Old Saxon nithana = Old High German nidana, Middle High German nidene, niden, German nieden), below, orig., like nithe, below, from comparative nither, nether: see nether. Hence by apheresis neath, 'neath.
 

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