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Above   /əbˈəv/   Listen
preposition
Above  prep.  
1.
In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; opposed to below or beneath. "Fowl that may fly above the earth."
2.
Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth... is actions above my gifts." "I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun."
3.
Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)
above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things.
Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.


adverb
Above  adv.  
1.
In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.
2.
Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above."
3.
Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.
4.
More than; as, above five hundred were present. Note: Above is often used elliptically as an adjective by omitting the word mentioned, quoted, or the like; as, the above observations, the above reference, the above articles. Above is also used substantively. "The waters that come down from above." It is also used as the first part of a compound in the sense of before, previously; as, above-cited, above-described, above-mentioned, above-named, abovesaid, abovespecified, above-written, above-given.





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"Above" Quotes from Famous Books



... Since the above appeared in print I have had the account of this engagement with the negroes in the forest from ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton
... quarter of the moon, low in the sky and looking like a boat-shaped Japanese lantern, lay above the forest. The forest, spectral-pale and misty, lay beneath the moon; the heat was sweltering, and Adams could not keep the palms of his hands dry, rub them with his pocket handkerchief or on his knees ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... sailed in battle-array under the orders of the greatest admiral of the day, Andrea Doria. All these disciplined legions of Christendom were arrayed against the corsair king; banded together for the destruction of that daring pirate whose flag floated in insolent triumph above the white walls ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... monarch saw this fight, their grim gestures; then was he astonished in this worlds-realm, what this tokening were, that he saw there at the bottom, and how Merlin knew it, that no other man knew. First was the white above, and afterwards he was beneath, and the red dragon wounded him to death; and either went to his hole— no man born saw them afterwards! Thus fared this thing that Vortiger the king saw. And all that ...
— Brut • Layamon
... worth coming to see—such a picture of loveliest gloom—as if it had been the cave where the twilight abode its time! You could not tell whether to call it light or shade,—that diffused presence of a soft elusive brown; but is what we call shade any thing but subdued light? All about, above, and below, lay the graceful creatures of the water, moveless and dead here on the shore, but there—launched into their own elemental world, and blown upon by the living wind—endowed at once with life and motion and ...
— The Vicar's Daughter • George MacDonald


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