Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb On high; overhead.
- adverb In heaven; heavenward.
- adverb Upstairs.
- adverb To a degree that is over zero.
- adverb In or to a higher place.
- adverb In an earlier part of a given text.
- adverb In or to a higher rank or position.
- preposition Over or higher than.
- preposition Superior to in rank, position, or number; greater than.
- preposition Beyond the level or reach of.
- preposition In preference to.
- preposition Too honorable or proud to undertake.
- preposition More than.
- preposition Upstream of.
- preposition North of.
- noun An earlier part of a given text.
- noun The person or persons already referred to in a text.
- adjective Appearing earlier in the same text.
- idiom (above all) Over and above all other factors or considerations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or to a higher place; overhead; often, in a special sense: In or to the celestial regions; in heaven.
- Upstairs.
- On the upper side (opposed to beneath); toward the top (opposed to below): as, leaves green above, glaucous beneath; stems smooth above, hairy below.
- Higher in rank or power: as, the courts above.
- Before in rank or order, especially in a book or writing: as, from what has been said above.
- Besides: in the expression over and above.
- Above is often used elliptically as a noun, meaning: Heaven: as, “Every good gift … is from
above ,” Jas. i. 17. Preceding statement, remarks, or the like: as, from the above you will learn my object. It has the force of an adjective in such phrases as the above particulars, in which cited or mentioned is understood. - In or to a higher place than.
- Superior to in any respect: often in the sense of too high for, as too high in dignity or fancied importance; too elevated in character: as, this man is above his business, above mean actions.
- More in quantity or number than: as, the weight is above a ton.
- More in degree than; in a greater degree than; beyond; in excess of.
- Synonyms Over, Above. See
over .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to
below orbeneath . - preposition Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than
- preposition Surpassing in number or quantity; more than. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See
Above , adv., 4.) - preposition before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things.
- preposition besides; in addition to.
- adverb In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven.
- adverb Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page.
- adverb Higher in rank or power.
- adverb More than.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- preposition In preference to.
- preposition Too proud to stoop;
averse to;disinclined ; too honorable to give. - preposition theater Upstage.
- preposition Beyond; on the other side.
- adverb biology On the upper half or the
dorsal surface of an animal. - noun Something, especially a person name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
- noun Higher authority.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at an earlier place
- adverb in or to a place that is higher
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Almost all are eagerly reaching forward to a station in life a little above what they can well afford, or struggling to do a business a little more extensive than they have capital or steady credit for; and thus they keep, all through life, _just above_ their means -- and just above, no matter by how small an excess, is inevitable misery.
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Except a mineral be born "from above" -- from the Kingdom just _above_ it -- it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it.
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Just below the ice, in cold such as the above, the sea was found to be 29 degrees _above_ zero.
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In general the mercury will stand either above or below the neutral point; if _above_, a portion of the mercury must have left the cistern, and consequently must have
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It was a summer night -- she sat on a rude stone, the city on one side, with its lights and lamps; -- the whitened fields beyond, with the moon and the stars above; and _above_ she raised her streaming eyes, and she thought that God, the Protector, smiled upon her from the face of the sweet skies.
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"You will please take notice that the Registrar or Minister is bound legally to send the notice of marriage referred to above, and also, that in reading it out _in the form, and with the accompanying remarks above_, you incur no legal penalty.
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I choose to believe Your Word above my circumstances, above my feelings, and above the voices around me or mistakes from the past.
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He pointed at the name above the tuning pegs, as if to say, “obviously!”
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