beneath

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beneath/bɪˈniːθ/
preposition & adverb
  • 1 extending or directly underneath.
  • 2 [as prep.] of lower status or worth than: he is rather beneath her.
– origin OE binithan, bineothan, from bi (see by) + nithan, neothan ‘below’, of Gmc origin.
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