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adown

/əˈdaʊn/

adown adverb: down, downward; to or in a lower place.

Adverb

adown (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
    • Thrice did she sink adown.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24
    • [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “[Sibylline Leaves.] Love, Hope, and Patience in Education.”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co....

Preposition

adown

  1. (archaic) Down.
    • I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a...1875, Charlotte Riddell, The Uninhabited House
    • Before yon field of trembling gold
      Is garnered into dusty sheaves,
      Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves
      Flutter as birds adown the wold, […]1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Rome Unvisited.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, canto IV, page 47

adown meaning in Bengali

adown in Bengali

নিচের দিকে

Origin of adown

From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way).

Questions about adown

What does adown mean?
Adown means down, downward; to or in a lower place.
What is adown in Bengali?
Adown in Bengali is নিচের দিকে. See Adown meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is adown?
Adown can be an adverb or a preposition.
How do you pronounce adown?
Adown is pronounced /əˈdaʊn/.

Words near adown in the dictionary

  1. Adour
  2. adovada
  3. Adovasio
  4. Adovasios
  5. adowa
  6. adown
  7. adoxograph
  8. adoxographer
  9. adoxographers
  10. adoxographic
  11. adoxographical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adown (page history and authors); adown (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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