Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- From a higher to a lower part; downward; down; to or on the ground.
- From a higher to a lower situation; down: implying descent.
- From top to bottom of; along the length of; downward; all along.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Archaic From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
- preposition Archaic & Poetic Down.
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- adverb archaic
down ,downward ; to or in a lower place. - preposition archaic
down
Etymologies
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Examples
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The adverb describing a descent from the hill, "off the down", ofdūne, turned into adown and eventually became our adverb down.
ἐφοβοῦντο nwhyte 2008
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Let's hope he slows adown and gives his readers more of his best.
Jackie K. Cooper: Private: James Patterson At His Most Medicore 2010
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The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel; In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From duty to the devil!
Pimping Your Ride: Making Money With Your Bike BikeSnobNYC 2009
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And tear-floods course adown the cheeks they only scald;
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“An erne methought came in,” she says, “and swept adown the hall, and drenched me and all of us with blood, and ill shall that betoken, for methought it was the double of King Atli.”
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The tears were running adown his cheeks, out of fear for his life and grief for his separation from Zau al-Makan; and he was saying to himself,
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For now that I have at last released me from my quarrel with your father, I let the tear-drops stream adown my tender cheek.
Medea 2008
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For now that I have at last released me from my quarrel with your father, I let the tear-drops stream adown my tender cheek.
Medea 2008
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Dear friend, my tears aye flow these cheeks adown, iii.
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Some few drifted far adown the stream, as did befit their weariness.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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