Crossword clues for beneath
beneath
- Soulful singer King, American tenor, first part of harmony set lower
- It's not worthy of being eaten in a stew in Belize
- Too demeaning for queen, say, to receive knight at home initially
- Under Scots mountain hate festering
- Not as great
- Inferior to
- Directly under
- Not over
- Insignificant to
- At a lower place
- At a lower level (than)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beneath \Be*neath"\, prep. [OE. benethe, bineo[eth]en, AS. beneo[eth]an, beny[eth]an; pref. be- + neo[eth]an, ny[eth]an, downward, beneath, akin to E. nether. See Nether.]
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Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. ``Beneath the mount.''
--Ex. xxxii. 19.Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies.
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Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
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Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
He will do nothing that is beneath his high station.
--Atterbury.
Beneath \Be*neath"\, adv.
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In a lower place; underneath.
The earth you take from beneath will be barren.
--Mortimer. Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English beneoðan "beneath, under, below," from be- "by" + neoðan "below," originally "from below," from Proto-Germanic *niþar "lower, farther down, down" (see nether). Meaning "unworthy of" is attested from 1849 (purists prefer below in this sense). "The be- gave or emphasized the notion of 'where,' excluding that of 'whence' pertaining to the simple niðan" [OED].
Wiktionary
adv. below or underneath. prep. below.
WordNet
adv. in or to a place that is lower [syn: below, at a lower place, to a lower place] [ant: above]
Wikipedia
Beneath is a straight-to-DVD thriller- horror film co-produced in a first time partnership between Paramount Classics (a Viacom subsidiary) and MTV Films (although both co-purchased the rights to Hustle & Flow in 2005). The film is directed by the newcomer Dagen Merrill, who co-wrote the script with Kevin Burke, and the list of producers include Sean Covel and Chris Wyatt ( Napoleon Dynamite, Think Tank), as well as Troy Craig Poon. In Paramount Classics's first horror movie, which marks the company's expansion from acquisitions into the production arena, the cast includes Nora Zehetner ( Brick, May, R.S.V.P., Everwood) and Matthew Settle ( U-571, Band of Brothers). Shooting started 2005 in Vancouver, the film was released on DVD August 7, 2007. It was the first direct-to-video title produced by MTV Films.
Beneath is a third-person action-adventure game developed by Presto Studios that was scheduled to be published by Activision in , but was cancelled.
Beneath is the fifth album by Finnish heavy metal band Amoral. The American release date was 2/14/12. It was released in Europe by Imperial Cassette in 2011 and the US edition was released by The End Records in 2012 .
Beneath is produced by Janne Saksa & Ben Varon. It is recorded by Janne Saksa and Amoral at Sound Supreme Studios, Hämeenlinna(FI) in February 2011. It is mixed by Janne Saksa and mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers Studios, Helsinki(FI). Arrangements are by Amoral. Programming on "Beneath" was made by Mikko P. Mustonen and programming on "Wastelands" by Janne Saksa.
"Beneath" is the 8th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 8th episode overall. It was aired on November 3, 2011. The episode was written by Don Whitehead & Holly Henderson and it was directed by John Fawcett.
Beneath is a 2013 horror film directed by Larry Fessenden. The film had its world premiere at the Stanley Film Festival on May 3, 2013 and later aired on the Chiller channel. Beneath stars Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, and Chris Conroy as teenagers that must fight for their lives against man-eating fish.
A digital comic based upon the movie was released in July 2013. The comic, also titled Beneath, explores the backstory behind the catfish and details another group that the giant fish attacked in the 1960s.
Beneath is a preposition
Beneath may also refer to:
- Beneath (2007 film), directed by Dagen Merrill
- Beneath (2011 feature film), directed by Eddie Garcia
- Beneath (2011 short film), a 2011 short, directed by Christopher Fernandez
- Beneath (2013 film), a 2013 thriller film by Larry Fessenden
- Beneath (2013 Ketai film), a 2013 horror film by Ben Ketai
- Beneath (album), 2012 album by heavy metal band AMORAL
- Beneath (band), an Icelandic death metal band signed to Unique Leader Records
- Beneath (video game), developed by Presto Studios
- "Beneath" (Young Justice), a 2012 episode of Young Justice
Usage examples of "beneath".
Her thoughts are like the lotus Abloom by sacred streams Beneath the temple arches Where Quiet sits and dreams.
The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.
For Juanita Mott became the sixth young woman in the space of just two years to be sexually abused, tortured, decapitated and finally dismembered in the cellar beneath the pavement of number 25 Cromwell Street.
The lorislike adapid had a shield of thickened skin over bony bumps on its back, beneath which it now tucked its head.
Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
I could sense his power and he, unlike Adeem, had fire and ice beneath his aura.
Dear as his daughter might become to him, all he dared to ask of Heaven was that she might be restored to that truer self which lay beneath her false and adventitious being.
Sure that the sigh of Ammon came from air within the adytum beneath, Ravion had gone to the temple and burned a special preparation.
One lone Aerian flew across the cavernous space, his gray wings unfolding beneath colored glass.
She wanted to see Aerians sweeping the heights above, and Leontines prowling around the pillars that were placed beneath those heights, as if they held up not only ceiling but sky.
To think how when I find this lucky star, And stand beneath it, like the Wise of old, I shall mount upward on a golden car, Girt round with glory unto worlds afar, While Earth amazed the wonder shall behold, That bears me unto happiness untold!
Even the succulent blue lilies--a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses--hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
Instructor Morada gazed out at the marketplace, agate rage already grown cloudy beneath a bloodied stripe of stark white hair.