under
/ˈʌndɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.73 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
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Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
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Subject to.
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Subject to.
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Within the category, classification or heading of.
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In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
Example Sentences
- "We found some shade under a tree."
- "Quick, stuff the cash under the mattress!"
- "There is nothing new under the sun."
- "There is an oil leak under the car."
- "The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets."
- "Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime."
Etymology
From Middle English under, from Old English under, from Proto-West Germanic *undar, from Proto-Germanic *under, from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér (“under”) and *h₁entér (“inside”). Cognate with German unter, Dutch onder, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish under, Faroese and Icelandic undir; also Old High German untar (“under”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar, “within”), Latin infrā (“below, beneath”) and inter (“between, among”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: under, *undar, *under, *(H)n̥dʰér
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʌndɚ/
- British English: /ˈʌndə/