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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Bajo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈbaxo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Low/loʊ/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El gato está sentado bajo en el suelo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Situated at a small distance from the ground; not high.

    "The cat is sitting low on the ground."
As adverb
  1. 1

    In a low position or manner.

    "He spoke low so that only she could hear."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old Norse word 'lágtr' meaning low or flat, with roots in Proto-Germanic. Over centuries, it evolved to describe physical position, minimal quantity, and subsequently abstract states such as emotional depression or economic downturn.

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