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- Dictionarylower/ˈləʊə/
adjective
- 1. less high in position: "the lower levels of the building" Similar Opposite
- 2. situated on less high land or towards the sea: "the union of Upper and Lower Egypt"
adverb
- 1. in or into a lower position: "the sun sank lower"
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LOWER definition: 1. to move something into a low position: 2. to reduce something: 3. to make something worse than…. Learn more.
You can use lower to refer to people or things that are less important than similar people or things. Already the awards are causing resentment in the lower ranks of council officers. The nation's highest court reversed the lower court's decision. The higher orders of society must rule the lower.
To lower is to move something downward. When you go to sleep at night, you lower your head onto your pillow (unless you are a horse; in that case, you don't lower anything and sleep standing up).
1. : relatively low in position, rank, or order. 2. : southern. lower New York State. 3. : less advanced in the scale of evolutionary development. 4.
/ˈləʊər/ Verb Forms. Idioms. [transitive, intransitive] to reduce something or to become less in value, quality, etc. lower something He lowered his voice to a whisper. This drug is used to lower blood pressure. to lower the rate/cost/price/level of something. Her voice lowered as she spoke.
LOWER definition: 1. to make something less in amount or degree: 2. to move something into a low position 3. to move…. Learn more.
What does the word lower mean? There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word lower, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. lower has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. geology (early 1700s) education (1810s) railways (1890s) See meaning & use.
5 days ago · lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered) (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down. lower a bucket into a well. to lower a sail of a boat.
adjective. us / ˈloʊ.ɚ / uk / ˈləʊ.ə r/ positioned below one or more similar things, or of the bottom part of something:
1. Below another in rank, position, or authority. 2. Physically situated below a similar or comparable thing: a lower shelf. 3. Lower Geology & Archaeology Relating to or being an earlier or older division of the period named. 4.
