BEHIND definition: 1. at the back (of): 2. In baseball, if the pitcher (= the player who throws the ball) is behind…. Learn more.

Define behind. behind synonyms, behind pronunciation, behind translation, English dictionary definition of behind. adv. 1. In, to, or toward the rear: We walked behind.

BEHIND definition: at or toward the rear of. See examples of behind used in a sentence.

Behind applies primarily to position in space, and suggests that one person or thing is at the back of another; it may also refer to (a fixed) time: He stood behind the chair.

behind (comparative more behind or (rare or nonstandard) behinder, superlative most behind or (rare or nonstandard) behindest) At or in the rear or back part of something.

If you are walking or travelling behind someone or something, you are following them. Keith wandered along behind him. Myra and Sam and the children were driving behind them.

In a place or time that has been passed or left by. Their worries are behind them.

Synonyms Behind, After. Behind relates primarily to position; after, to time. When after notes position, it is less close or exact than behind, and it means position in motion. To say that men stood one after another in a line was once correct (see Chaucer, knight's Tale, 1. 901, “kneeled … each after other”), but is not so now.