aboue

Adverb

above (not comparable)

1. Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
   • Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
2. Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
   • Nobody has lived in it since the summer of 1879, and it is fast going to pieces. For some three years before the date mentioned above, it was occupied by the family of Charles May1913, Ambrose Bierce, Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
3. Into or from heaven; in the sky.
   • He’s in a better place now, floating free as the clouds above.
4. In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
5. Higher in rank, power, or position.
   • He appealed to the court above.
6. (archaic) In addition.

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