1
:situated down or below:lower
Snakes nested in thenether reaches of the cave.
2
:situated or believed to be situated beneath the earth's surface
… Hades captured her and carried her off to thenether world to be his wife.—
S. V. McCasland
S. V. McCaslandSynonyms ofnether
Examples ofnether in a Sentence
skied thenether slope of the mountain
Recent Examples on the WebThis is thenether region of decadence.—Dan Piepenbring,Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026Privately, Mamdani hopes to install bidets, the bathroom fixture used to clean one’snetherregions with water after using the restroom.—Eduardo Cuevas,USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026Then Singleton turned and stared directly at Matt and his family on the sidelines, put his hand underneath hisnether regions, and hopped back and forth.—Luca Evans,Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025The laconic physical therapist clad in a white coat trained her eyes up the barrel of mynetherregions, cueing me to tense my pelvic floor and relax it again.—Casey Johnston,Wired News, 20 Nov. 2025See All Example Sentences fornether
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Dan Piepenbring,Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026Privately, Mamdani hopes to install bidets, the bathroom fixture used to clean one’snetherregions with water after using the restroom.—Eduardo Cuevas,USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026Then Singleton turned and stared directly at Matt and his family on the sidelines, put his hand underneath hisnether regions, and hopped back and forth.—Luca Evans,Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025The laconic physical therapist clad in a white coat trained her eyes up the barrel of mynetherregions, cueing me to tense my pelvic floor and relax it again.—Casey Johnston,Wired News, 20 Nov. 2025See All Example Sentences fornetherWord History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old Englishnithera, fromnither down; akin to Old High Germannidar down, Sanskritni
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined atsense 1
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“Nether.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nether. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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adjectiveneth·erˈnet͟h-ər 
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