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markdown

markdown noun: a reduction in price in order to stimulate sales. Also the alternative letter-case form of Markdown.

Noun

markdown (plural markdowns)

  1. A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
    • Near-synonym: special
    Synonyms:
    discount, special
    Antonyms:
    markup

Also used as

markdown is also the alternative letter-case form of Markdown.

Synonyms of markdown

Antonyms

Forms of markdown

pluralmarkdowns

Origin of markdown

Deverbal from mark down. The computing sense is a pun on markup (language).

Questions about markdown

What does markdown mean?
Markdown means a reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
What part of speech is markdown?
Markdown is a noun.
What is the plural of markdown?
The plural of markdown is markdowns.

Words near markdown in the dictionary

  1. Markarian galaxy
  2. Markarians
  3. Markaryd
  4. markas
  5. Markazi
  6. markdown
  7. markdowns
  8. marke
  9. Markeb
  10. marked
  11. marked as

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Adapted from Wiktionary: markdown (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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