When one thing is behind another, it's at the rear or the far side of it, possibly even hidden by it. Your shy dog might tend to stand behind you when you meet a friend on your walk.
On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of;
Noun
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
Adverb
in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"
Adverb
remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars fa
Adverb
in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"
Adverb
in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
Adverb
of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"
a.
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.
Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to
a distance or by death.
a.
Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence:
Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any
achievement.
adv.
At the back part; in the rear.
adv.
Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look
behind.
adv.
Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view;
out of sight; remaining.
adv.
Backward in time or order of succession; past.
adv.
After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.
n.
The backside; the rump.
Behind
A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood.2.
A small part of what he left behind him.3.
I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Behind
We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind.4.
Forgetting those things which are behind.5.
Leave not a rack behind.
Behind
On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of;
At the back part; in the rear.
The backside; the rump.
Usage Examples
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmericans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
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