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Behind

adverb

1.

In or to or toward the rear. "Seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front" , "The final runners were far behind"

2.

Remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from. "Left a large family behind" , "The children left their books behind" , "He took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"

3.

Of timepieces. Synonym: slow. "My watch is running behind"

4.

In or into an inferior position. "Their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"

5.

In debt. Synonyms: behindhand, in arrears. "A month behind in the rent" , "A company that has been run behindhand for years" , "In arrears with their utility bills"

noun

1.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

adjective

1.

Having the lower score or lagging position in a contest. "The 8th inning found the home team trailing"

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"Behind" Quotes from Famous Books

... door softly behind her and stood with her back against it watching them a moment. Then Georgina spied her, and with a rapturous cry of "Barby!" scrambled down and ran to throw herself into her mother's arms. Barby was her way of saying Barbara. ...

— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... if we put something in their way, they will have to run round it; and if you let in a very narrow ray of light through a shutter and put an upright wire in the sunbeam, you actually make the waves run round the wire just as water runs round a post in a river; and they meet behind the wire, just as the water meets in a V shape behind the post. Now when they meet, they run up against each other, and here it is we catch them. Fir if they meet comfortably, both rising up in a good wave, they run on ...

— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley

... of the expected arrival of his Beauchamp. He pleased himself, that he should leave behind him a man who would delight every body, and supply to his friends his absence.—What a character did he give, and Dr. Bartlett confirm, of that amiable ...

— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson

... the horse, and then a cloud of foot, Unnumber'd; in the midst Patroclus came, Borne by his comrades; all the corpse with hair They cover'd o'er, which from their heads they shore. Behind, Achilles held his head, and mourn'd The noble friend whom to the tomb he bore. Then on the spot by Peleus' son assign'd, They laid him down, and pil'd the wood on high. Then a fresh thought Achilles' mind conceiv'd: Standing apart, the yellow locks he shore, Which as an off'ring to Sperchius' stream, ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... that money alone is wealth has been long defunct, but it has left many of its progeny behind it. Adam Smith's theory of the benefit of foreign trade was, that it afforded an outlet for the surplus produce of a country, and enabled a portion of the capital of the country to replace itself with a profit. The expression, ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

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