beneath

Below or underneath.

• 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.

Below.

• 1718, Alexander Pope, epitaph to Nicholas Rowe Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies.

In a position that is lower in rank, dignity, etc.

• Their despicable behaviour is beneath contempt.
• He will do nothing that is beneath his high station.

Covered up or concealed by something.