- in a place or on a level below another: lower lip
- inferior in rank, authority, or dignity: the lower classes
- less in quantity, degree, value, intensity, etc.
- being farther south, closer to a shore or to the mouth of a river, or below land of higher elevation
- [L-] earlier: used of a division of a period: Lower Devonian, Lower Paleolithic
Origin of lower
comparative of low- a lower berth, as in a Pullman car
- [pl.] the lower teeth or dentures
- to let or put down: lower the window sash
- to reduce in height, elevation, amount, value, etc.: to lower prices
- to weaken or lessen: a disease that lowers one's resistance to further infection
- to bring down in respect, dignity, etc.; demean: to lower oneself by accepting a bribe
- to reduce (a sound) in volume or pitch
to become lower; sink, fall, become reduced, etc.
