behind
Part of speech: prep
adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).
Base: hind
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: ahind
pos: prep
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: behine
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: more behind
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: behinder
pos: adv
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most behind
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: behindest
pos: adv
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
form: ahind
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: behine
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: more behind
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: behinder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most behind
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: behindest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
form: ahind
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: behine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: behinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ahind
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: behine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At or to the back or far side of.
pos: prep
examples: The children were hiding behind the wall.
Behind the garage needs clearing asap.
The sun went behind the clouds.
Look behind you!
I hide behind you in hide and seek.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
gloss: At or to the back or far side of.
pos: prep
tags: figuratively
examples: Behind the smile was a cruel intention.
gloss: At or to the back or far side of.
pos: prep
tags: figuratively
examples: All my problems are behind me.
gloss: Less forward or advanced than; after.
pos: prep
examples: Smith finished the race a lap behind the others.
About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed — I tethered by my rope[…].
gloss: Less forward or advanced than; after.
pos: prep
examples: I'm ranked sixth in the French class, behind five other pupils.
In the cricket match, England are 120 runs behind India.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
gloss: Less forward or advanced than; after.
pos: prep
examples: London is nine hours behind Tokyo.
gloss: Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
pos: prep
examples: Who is behind these terrorist attacks?
Mr Jones was the man behind the redevelopment plan.
Bud Light replaces Marketing VP behind Dylan Mulvaney partnership.
gloss: Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
pos: prep
examples: What is behind this unexpected decision?
gloss: In support of.
pos: prep
examples: The republicans are fully behind their candidate.
gloss: Following, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of; because of.
pos: prep
tags: US
informal
examples: He was like, 'Fuck the police! Fuck you! You know who I am, you gonna quit playing with me, bitch.' I'm like let's go. 'Cause I wasn't trying to go to jail behind that shit.
gloss: At or in the rear or back part of something.
pos: adv
examples: The water flows out through the pipe, and the sediment collects behind.
gloss: In a rearward direction.
pos: adv
examples: We ran and ran, without once looking behind.
gloss: So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
pos: adv
examples: The slower runners were left a long way behind.
In the cricket match, England finished a long way behind.
The worst thing about autumn is that winter follows behind.
I shall not lag behind.
gloss: So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
pos: adv
examples: I couldn't be bothered to carry the ironing board, so I left it behind.
He stayed behind after the war.
He left behind a legacy of death and sorrow.
The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind.
gloss: Backward in time or order of succession; past.
pos: adv
examples: […] forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before
gloss: Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
pos: adv
examples: ‘After the performance was over I went behind, and spoke to her.’
gloss: Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind.
gloss: Not advanced to the required or expected degree; overdue or in arrears.
pos: adj
examples: I'm very behind in my schedule.
My employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary.
gloss: Slow.
pos: adj
examples: My watch is behind by four minutes.
gloss: The rear, back-end.
pos: noun
examples: This part fits under the behind of the vehicle.
She sneaked up on me from behind.
gloss: The buttocks, bottom, butt.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I was stung on the behind by a wasp.
There was a girl in the mattress factory with me during the war, girl about thirty. A big one, kind of a fat face, big behind to her, big titties, kind of a girl should be human and soft with a man.
"So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says "behind", as in "I have a picture where he bit me in the behind." The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra.
"The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the [decoy setter] in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident.
gloss: Synonym of ass (“synecdochic: a person or their body”).
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: Get your lazy behind out of bed!
gloss: A one-point score.
pos: noun
examples: A roar from ten thousand throats go up,
For we've kicked another behind.
gloss: The catcher.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
pos: noun
Related words: hind
hiney
Derived words: behind center
behinded
behind every successful man there stands a woman
behind its time
behindness
behind post
behind someone's back
behind the 8-ball
behind the curtain
behind the curve
behind the ear
behind the eight ball
behind the eightball
behind-the-scenes
behind the times
behind the wire
behind time
dry behind the ears
green behind the ears
hidebehind
jump up behind
nut behind the bolt
power behind the throne
put behind one
rally behind
therebehind
throw oneself behind
throw one's weight behind
walk behind
wet-behind-the-ears
with one arm tied behind one's back
with one hand tied behind one's back
writebehind
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: agter
lang: Albanian
word: prapa
lang: Arabic
word: وَرَاءَ
roman: warāʔa
lang: Arabic
word: خَلْفَ
roman: ḵalfa
lang: Arabic
word: ورا
roman: warā
lang: Arabic
word: ورا
roman: wara
lang: Arabic
word: مور
roman: mūr
lang: Arabic
word: مورا
roman: mūrā
lang: Arabic
word: ورا
roman: wrā
lang: Arabic
word: ورا
roman: wara
lang: Armenian
word: ետեւ
roman: etew
lang: Armenian
word: հետեւ
roman: hetew
lang: Aromanian
word: dupã
lang: Aromanian
word: dupu
lang: Aromanian
word: dipu
lang: Aromanian
word: dipã
lang: Assamese
word: -ৰ পিছত
roman: -r pisot
lang: Azerbaijani
word: arxasında
lang: Basque
word: atzean
lang: Belarusian
word: за
roman: za
lang: Bhojpuri
word: पीछे
roman: pīchē
lang: Bulgarian
word: зад
roman: zad
lang: Burmese
word: နောက်
roman: nauk
lang: Catalan
word: darrere
lang: Catalan
word: rere
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ...後面 /...后面
roman: ... hòumiàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ...後邊 /...后边
roman: ... hòubiān
lang: Czech
word: za
lang: Dalmatian
word: dri
lang: Danish
word: bag ved
lang: Dutch
word: achter
lang: Dutch
word: achteraan
lang: Esperanto
word: malantaŭ
lang: Estonian
word: taga
lang: Ewe
word: megbe
lang: Finnish
word: takana
lang: French
word: derrière
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: bääte
lang: West-Frisian
word: efter
lang: Galician
word: detrás de
lang: Galician
word: tras
lang: Georgian
word: უკან
roman: uḳan
lang: German
word: hinter
lang: Greek
word: πίσω από
roman: píso apó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὄπισθεν
roman: ópisthen
lang: Haitian Creole
word: dèyè
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵאָחוֹר
roman: me'akhór
lang: Hebrew
word: מאחורי
roman: me'akhoréi
lang: Hindi
word: के पीछे
roman: ke pīche
lang: Hungarian
word: mögött
lang: Hungarian
word: után
lang: Ido
word: dop
lang: Interlingua
word: detra
lang: Irish
word: taobh thiar de
lang: Irish
word: ar chúl
lang: Istriot
word: dreîo
lang: Italian
word: dietro
lang: Japanese
word: ...の後ろに
roman: ...no ushiro ni
lang: Korean
word: 뒤에
roman: dwi-e
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پشتی
roman: piştî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: li pey
lang: Ladino
word: detrás de
lang: Latin
word: post
lang: Latin
word: pōne
lang: Latvian
word: aiz
lang: Limburgish
word: achter
lang: Limburgish
word: hönjer
lang: Lithuanian
word: už
lang: Macedonian
word: зад
roman: zad
lang: Malay
word: di belakang
lang: Maltese
word: wara
lang: Navajo
word: bineʼgi
lang: Navajo
word: bineʼdi
lang: Norwegian
word: bak
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: за
roman: za
lang: Old English
word: æfter
lang: Papiamentu
word: patras
lang: Pashto
word: له ... نه ورستو
roman: lë ... na wrostô
lang: Pashto
word: د ... د ورستو
roman: dë ... dë wrostô
lang: Pashto
word: تر شا
roman: ter šâ
lang: Persian
word: پشت
roman: pošt
lang: Pijin
word: bihaen
lang: Polish
word: za
lang: Portuguese
word: atrás
lang: Portuguese
word: detrás de
lang: Punjabi
word: پِچھّے
roman: pnb
lang: Punjabi
word: ਪਿੱਛੇ
roman: picchē
lang: Romanian
word: după
lang: Romansh
word: davos
lang: Russian
word: за
roman: za
lang: Russian
word: сза́ди
roman: szádi
lang: Russian
word: позади́
roman: pozadí
lang: Samoan
word: tua
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: air cùlaibh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: air cùl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: za
lang: Slovak
word: za
lang: Slovene
word: zadáj
lang: Slovene
word: za
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: za
lang: Spanish
word: detrás de
lang: Spanish
word: atrás
lang: Swahili
word: nyuma
lang: Swedish
word: bakom
lang: Tagalog
word: sa likod
lang: Telugu
word: వెనక
roman: venaka
lang: Thai
word: ข้างหลัง
roman: kâang lăng
lang: Tonga (Zambia)
word: kusule
lang: Turkish
word: arkasında
lang: Ukrainian
word: за
roman: za
lang: Ukrainian
word: поза
roman: poza
lang: Unami
word: wtenk
lang: Urdu
word: کے پیچھے
roman: ke pīche
lang: Venetan
word: drio
lang: Vietnamese
word: sau
lang: Volapük
word: po
lang: Walloon
word: dirî
lang: Walloon
word: padrî
lang: Welsh
word: tu cefn
lang: Welsh
word: tu cefn i
lang: West Flemish
word: bachtn
lang: Yiddish
word: הינטער
roman: hinter
lang: Zulu
word: emuva
lang: Albanian
word: prapa
lang: Arabic
word: وَرَاء
roman: warāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: خَلْفَ
roman: ḵalfa
lang: Arabic
word: ورا
roman: wara
lang: Azerbaijani
word: geri
lang: Belarusian
word: за
roman: za
lang: Bulgarian
word: наза́д
roman: nazád
lang: Catalan
word: endarrere
lang: Catalan
word: enrere
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ...後面 /...后面
roman: ... hòumiàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ...後邊 /...后边
roman: ... hòubiān
lang: Czech
word: za
lang: Danish
word: bag ved
lang: Danish
word: bagefter
lang: Dutch
word: achteraan
lang: Estonian
word: taha
lang: Ewe
word: megbe
lang: Finnish
word: taakse
lang: French
word: derrière
lang: West-Frisian
word: efter
lang: Georgian
word: უკან
roman: uḳan
lang: German
word: hinter
lang: Haitian Creole
word: dèyè
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵאָחוֹר
roman: me'akhór
lang: Hebrew
word: מאחורי
roman: me'akhoréi
lang: Hindi
word: के पीछे
roman: ke pīche
lang: Hungarian
word: mögé
lang: Interlingua
word: detra
lang: Italian
word: dietro
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پشت
roman: pişt
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پاش
roman: paş
lang: Latin
word: post
lang: Latvian
word: aiz
lang: Malay
word: ke belakang
lang: Norwegian
word: bak
lang: Polish
word: z tyłu
lang: Portuguese
word: atrás
lang: Russian
word: за
roman: za
lang: Slovak
word: za
lang: Slovene
word: nazáj
lang: Slovene
word: za
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: za
lang: Spanish
word: detrás
lang: Swahili
word: nyuma
lang: Swedish
word: bakom
lang: Tagalog
word: sa likod
lang: Telugu
word: వెనక్కి
roman: venakki
lang: Unami
word: wtenk
lang: Urdu
word: کے پیچھے
roman: ke pīche
lang: Welsh
word: tu cefn
lang: Welsh
word: tu cefn i
lang: Yiddish
word: הינטער
roman: hinter
lang: Zazaki
word: peydı
lang: Zulu
word: ngasemuva
lang: Czech
word: zpátky
lang: Danish
word: tilbage
lang: Finnish
word: jälkeen
lang: Hungarian
word: hátra
lang: Irish
word: ar gcúl
lang: Portuguese
word: para trás
lang: Romanian
word: spre spate
lang: Romanian
word: îndărăt
lang: Romanian
word: spre-napoi
lang: Russian
word: наза́д
roman: nazád
lang: Russian
word: вспять
roman: vspjatʹ
lang: Slovak
word: späť
lang: Swedish
word: baktill