Definitions for aboves

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aboves a·bove

Spelling: [uh-buhv]

IPA: /əˈbʌv/

Aboves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in aboves (abeosv).

Definitions for aboves

noun

1. something that was said, mentioned, or written above:
2. the person or persons previously indicated:
3. heaven:
4. a higher authority:

Idioms

1. above all, most important of all; principally:

adverb

1. in, at, or to a higher place.
2. overhead, upstairs, or in the sky:
3. higher in rank, authority, or power:
4. higher in quantity or number:
5. before or earlier, especially in a book or other piece of writing; foregoing: Compare below (def 6).
6. in or to heaven:
7. Zoology. on the upper or dorsal side.
8. Theater. upstage. Compare below (def 9).
9. higher than zero on the temperature scale:

adjective

1. said, mentioned, or written above; foregoing:

preposition

1. in or to a higher place than; over:
2. more in quantity or number than; in excess of:
3. superior in rank, authority, or standing to:
4. not subject or liable to; not capable of (some undesirable action, thought, etc.):
5. of too fine a character for:
6. rather than; in preference to:
7. beyond, especially north of:
8. Theater. upstage of.

Origin of aboves

before 900; Middle English above(n) (Cf. aboon), Old English abufan, onbufan (a-¹, on + bufan above (cognate with Dutch boven), equivalent to b(e) Examples for aboves

I said above, that I never can be, that I never ought to be, Mrs. Solmes.

The Sony hack has revealed, above all, just how easy it is for this information to get out.

Are you excited, nervous, afraid, all of the above for the new Star Wars films?

Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station.

Since I wrote the above, I ventured to send a letter by Shorey to my mother.

Had Mrs. Bines been above talking to low people, a catastrophe might have been averted.

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread.

He thinks if you add up the above the line you'll see that 50 gets you the slightly bigger movie with more action and 45 won't.

So there is full proof, that she came not from above all at once an angel!