nether

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /nɛð.ə/    美 /nɛð.ɚ/|/neð.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. Scotland,UK,dialectal
  2. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
动词 v.
  1. To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
  2. To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
  3. To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
  4. To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
  5. To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Lower; under.
    — The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
    — the nether regions
副词 adv.
  1. Down; downward.
  2. Low; low down.
专有名词
  1. Alternative letter-case form of the Nether. alt-of

词形变化

nethermore comparative,rare nethermost superlative more nether comparative most nether superlative the nether canonical nethers present,singular,third-person nethering participle,present nethered participle,past nethered past nither alternative nethers plural nither alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
hard as the nether millstone Hartington Nether Quarter Nether Alderley Nether Broughton nether cheek Nether Denton netherdom Netherexe Nether Exe nether-hair nether hair Nether Heyford netherhood Nether Kellet Netherland Netherlands nethermore nethermost netherness Nether Padley Nether Peover Nether Poppleton Nether Providence nether region Nether-Saxon nether-shirt Nether Staveley nether thought Nethertown netherverse Nether Wallop netherward netherwards Nether Whitacre nether world netherworld Nether Wyresdale nethering

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.
词源 2
Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.
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