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Behind   /bɪhˈaɪnd/   Listen
preposition
Behind  prep.  
1.
On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. "A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood."
2.
Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. "A small part of what he left behind him."
3.
Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. "I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."


adverb
Behind  adv.  
1.
At the back part; in the rear. "I shall not lag behind."
2.
Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.
3.
Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. "We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind."
4.
Backward in time or order of succession; past. "Forgetting those things which are behind."
5.
After the departure of another; as, to stay behind. "Leave not a rack behind."


noun
Behind  n.  The backside; the rump. (Low)





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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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