Definition of "nether" in Anglais

adjective

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

adverb

1. Down; downward.

2. Low; low down.

name

1. Alternative letter-case form of the Nether.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

2. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

3. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

4. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

5. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

2. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.