Definition of Behind

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Behind

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.

Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

At the back part; in the rear.

Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.

Backward in time or order of succession; past.

After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.

The backside; the rump.

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Behind Quotations

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind Translations

behind in Afrikaans is agterent, agter
behind in Danish is bagom
behind in Dutch is aan het einde, achteraan
behind in German is hinten, dahinter, Hintern, hinter, hinter, hinten
behind in Italian is indietro, dietro
behind in Latin is secundum, post
behind in Norwegian is bak
behind in Swedish is bakefter, bakom, baktill, efter

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