beneath

«beneath» in Mova's school dictionary: Under or below something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

preposition; adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) Under or below something. tree →

2) beneath someone: not good enough for someone, or too low for them to do (often proud or rude). tree →

sense in the lessons

Common in stories and poems as a more literary word for "under". In science: roots beneath the soil, rocks beneath the sea. Phrases: beneath the surface, beneath you, beneath contempt.

examples

• The cat slept beneath the table. tree →
• Beneath the soil, roots grow deep. tree →
• There is hot rock far beneath the Earth's surface. tree →
• She hid the letter beneath her pillow. tree →
• He thinks washing up is beneath him. tree →
• Write your name beneath the title. tree →
• The fish swam beneath the ice. tree →
• Meet here beneath this ash-tree's roots. tree →

note

More formal or literary than "under" or "below". "Beneath him" is about pride, not place. Opposite: above, over.

In the corpora

• Rivers can be deep and fast just beneath a calm surface.
• And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
• that they might be double beneath, and in like manner they should be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring.
• And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
• The path of life goeth upward for the wise, that he may depart from the nether-world beneath.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beneath» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.