Usually means: Positioned at a lesser height.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lower: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Lower, lower, lower, lower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lower, lower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lower: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lower, lower: Wordnik
  7. lower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lower, lower: Wiktionary
  9. lower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lower: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lower: Dictionary.com
  13. lower (v.1), lower (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lower: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lower: Rhymezone
  19. Lower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lower: Free Dictionary
  22. lower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lower: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lower: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lower: Legal dictionary
  2. lower: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lower: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lower: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  2. lower: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. LoWER: Acronym Finder
  3. lower: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lower, lower, lower: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lower: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
adjective:  Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
adjective:  (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Older.
verb:  (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
verb:  (transitive) to pull down
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the height of
verb:  (transitive) To depress as to direction
verb:  (transitive) To make less elevated
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
verb:  (transitive) To bring down; to humble
verb:  (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
verb:  (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Alternative spelling of lour [(intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.]

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