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below prep 1 lower in position, rank, amount, degree, number or status, etc than a specified thing • 40 degrees below zero. 2 not worthy of someone beneath them. 3 under the surface of something • below waterbelow deck. adverb 1 at, to or in a lower place, point or level. 2 further on in a book, etc • See p 23 below. 3 literary or archaic on earth (as regarded from heaven), or in hell (as regarded from earth). below the belt colloq unfair; not following the accepted rules of behaviour. A originally from boxing: a blow below the level of the belt is against the Queensberry Rules.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c as bilooghe, from bi- by + looghe low.