Down

Noun

 * 1)  Hill, rolling grassland
 * Churchill Downs, Upson Downs (from Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis).
 * 1)  Field, especially for racing.

Adverb

 * 1)  From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
 * The cat jumped down from the table.
 * 1)  At a lower place or position.
 * His place is farther down the road.
 * 1) South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
 * I went down to Miami for a conference.
 * 1)  Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
 * He went down to Cavan.
 * Down on the farm.
 * Down country.
 * 1) Into a state of non-operation.
 * ''The computer has been shut down.
 * They closed the shop down.
 * 1)  The direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
 * 2)  Get down.
 * Down, boy!

Antonyms

 * up
 * up
 * up
 * up
 * up

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: down (adverb)

Preposition

 * 1) From the higher end to the lower of.
 * The ball rolled down the hill.
 * 1) From one end to another of.
 * The bus went down the street.
 * They walked down the beach holding hands.

Antonyms

 * up

Derived terms

 * sell someone down the river

Adjective

 * 1) Depressed, feeling low.
 * So, things got you down? / Is Rodney Dangerfield giving you no respect? / Well, bunky, cheer up!
 * 1) On a lower level than before.
 * The stock market is down.
 * Prices are down.
 * 1) Having a lower score than an opponent.
 * They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
 * He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
 * At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
 * 1)  With "on", negative about, hostile to
 * Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
 * 1) Frequently used prior to "with", relaxed about, accepting of
 * I'm down with him hanging with us.
 * 1)  Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
 * ''The system is down.
 * 1) Of a task; finished in phrases like:
 * Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
 * 1) Committed to memory; memorised, in phrases like:
 * It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.

Antonyms

 * up
 * up
 * up
 * up

Verb

 * 1)  To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
 * He downed an ale and ordered another.
 * 1)  To cause to come down.
 * The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
 * 1)  To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
 * He downed two balls on the break.
 * 1)  To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
 * He downed it at the seven-yard line.
 * 1)  To write off; to make fun of.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:drink

Noun

 * 1)  A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
 * I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
 * 1) a negative aspect; a downer.
 * I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
 * 1)  A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
 * I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.

Noun

 * 1) Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.

Adjectives for Down
solitary; dewy-glooming; callow; loaning; soft; undulating (pi); hushless (pi);beautiful; swelling (pi).

Thesaurus
COD, Vandyke, actively, adown, ailing, air, alkali flat, all up with, alluvial plain, anthill, backset, bad, barrow, basin, beard, beat, beaten, beaver, bedfast, bedridden, below, below par, best, bested, blow down, blow over, blubber, blue, booked, bottomland, bowed-down, bowl down, bowl over, brae, breeze, bring down, bristles, bubble, bulldog, bushveld, butte, butter, campo, carry off, cascade, cash, cash down, cash on delivery, cast down, cataract, chaff, champaign, champaign country, check, chip, chop down, chute, clay, coastal plain, cobweb, collapse, collapsing, come down, comedown, completed, completely, concluded, confined, confounded, conquer, consume, cork, crash, critically ill, cushion, cut down, cut off, daintiness, dash down, dashed, debacle, deciduous, deck, declension, declination, declining, declivitous, decurrent, defeated, defluxion, dejected, delicacy, delta, depressant, depressed, depressing, depressive, descend, descendant, descending, descension, descent, desert, despairing, despondent, desponding, destroy, devour, digest, dip down, discomfited, discomfiture, discouraged, discouraging, disheartened, disheartening, dispatch, dispirited, dispiriting, dispose of, disregard, documented, done, done for, done in, dough, down, down south, downbend, downcast, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downfalling, downflow, downgoing, downgrade, downhearted, downhill, downiness, downline, downpour, downright, downrush, downs, downsinking, downstairs, downstream, downstreet, downtown, downtrend, downturn, downward, downward trend, downwards, downwith, drooping, droopy, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, drumlin, dune, dust, earlier, earnestly, earthward, eat, eat up, eiderdown, ended, enrolled, entered, ether, faint, faintish, fairy, fall, fall down, fall off, fallen, falling, feather, feather bed, feathers, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling low, feeling something terrible, fell, fetch down, filed, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, finish, finished, fixed, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, flatten, fleece, floor, floored, floss, flue, fluff, fluffiness, foam, foothills, for real, froth, fully, fur, fuzz, fuzziness, get away with, get down, go down, go downhill, goatee, gossamer, gossameriness, grass veld, grassland, gravitate, gravitation, ground, heartless, heath, hew down, hill, hillock, hipped, hors de combat, hospitalized, hummock, hurdle, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ignore, ill, imperial, in childbed, in danger, in hospital, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inclination, indexed, indisposed, inferior, ingest, inscribed, invalided, kapok, knob, knock down, knoll, laid low, laid up, lambasted, lande, languishing, lathered, lay level, lay low, lay out, legal, level, lick, licked, lint, liquidate, llano, logged, lose altitude, low, low-spirited, lower, lowest, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, master, mesa, mesilla, minuted, molehill, money down, monticle, monticule, moor, moorland, mortally ill, mote, mound, mow down, nether, not quite right, of record, off, off-color, official, on call, on demand, on file, on record, on the books, on the descendant, on the downgrade, on the skids, open country, oppressive, out of sorts, outdo, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, pampa, pampas, panicked, parachute, pay-as-you-go, peach fuzz, peneplain, pessimistic, pile, pillow, pining, pipe, pitch, plain, plains, plateau, playa, plummet, plummeting, plunge, plunging, plush, pocket, pocket the affront, posted, pounce, pour down, prairie, precipitate, prostrate, pubescence, pudding, puff, pull down, put away, put to rout, putty, rain, rapids, rase, raze, recorded, refinement, registered, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, rocky, routed, rubber, ruined, sagging, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sand dune, satin, satininess, savanna, scattered, scrag, sebkha, seedy, send headlong, setback, setting, settled, severe check, sick, sick abed, sick unto death, sickish, side whiskers, silenced, silk, silkiness, sinking, skinned, skinned alive, slack, sluggish, smoothness, softness, spiritless, sponge, spread-eagle, spume, stampeded, steppe, stomach, stoop, straw, strictly cash, stubble, subdued, subjacent, submerging, subsiding, suicidal, supinate, surmount, surround, swallow, swallow an insult, swansdown, swell, swoop, table, tableland, take, take down, take in, take off, taken ill, terminated, thistledown, through, through-and-through, throw, throw down, throwback, topple, tottering, tree veld, trend downward, trimmed, trip, trounced, tuck in, tuft, tumble, tumbledown, tundra, turn aside provocation, under, under the weather, undone, unwell, upland, upset, vega, veld, velvet, velvetiness, waterfall, wax, weald, weary of life, whack down, whelmed, whipped, whiskers, wide-open spaces, woebegone, wold, wool, world-weary, worst, worsted, written down, zephyr

Etymology 1
doun:, from dun:, from British Celtic dunon 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh din 'hill', Irish dún 'hill, fort'), from  *dheue or dhwene. More at town:; akin to dune:.

Etymology 2
dune:, aphetic form of adune:, from undefined:.

Etymology 3
From dún:.

Noun

 * Danish: højdedrag
 * Dutch:


 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Persian:


 * : plomissol, plomissa


 * : 綿毛 (わたげ, watage), ダウン (daun)
 * : plumón

Adverb

 * Arabic: تحت
 * Bulgarian: надолу
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 下
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, nedad
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (cáto)
 * Hebrew: מטה (mat'a)
 * Hindi: नीचे
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 下
 * Lao:


 * Latin:
 * Low Saxon: dal
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: پایین
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: abaixo, para baixo., juso
 * Romanian:, în jos
 * Russian: (where to), ; (where) внизу
 * Scots: doon
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Urdu: نیچے
 * West Frisian:


 * Bulgarian: долу
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Irish:
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian: внизу
 * Scots: doon
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Irish:


 * Japanese: 南に (みなみ に, minami ni)
 * Maltese:
 * Russian: юг,  юг
 * Scots: doon
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:


 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Russian: город,  город


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Scots: doon


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Japanese: 下りの (くだり の, kudari no)


 * French: couché, descends , descendez


 * Italian:
 * Swahili:


 * : poshtë
 * : avall
 * : dolje
 * : infre, adinfre


 * : bawah
 * : (in) giù
 * : jêr, binî
 * : jos
 * : abajo
 * : खाली

Preposition

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ned ad, hen ad
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sub -n (i.e. with an object in the accusative case)
 * Russian: вниз (vniz), вдоль (vdol'), по (po)


 * Scots: doon
 * Scottish Gaelic: a-bhàn, sìos, le
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:

Adjective

 * Danish: langt nede, nede, deprimeret
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Malay:, murung
 * Russian: печальный, подавленный
 * Scots: dowie


 * Danish: lav, nedadgående, aftagende
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,


 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Thai: ต่ำ


 * : deprimit, deprimido
 * : korpremata or korpremita or perhaps korprema
 * : dépressif, dépri


 * : giù
 * : depresîf, moralşkestî

Verb

 * Danish: sluge, hælde ned
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian: lehajt, felhajt


 * Kurdish: daqurtandin, daûrandin, dabelandin,  daqurtîn, daûrîn, dabelîn
 * Malay: teguk
 * Russian: выпить залпом (výpit’ zálpom), залпом (zálpom)
 * Slovene:


 * Dutch:


 * German:


 * Danish: tabe, lade falde
 * Dutch:, droppen
 * French:


 * German:
 * Kurdish:, , ,

Noun

 * Dutch:, ,

Derived terms

 * down and out
 * down at heel
 * down in the dumps
 * down in the mouth
 * down memory lane
 * down on one's luck


 * down payment
 * down pat
 * downed (US and Canadian football)
 * downer
 * down to the short strokes
 * first down (US and Canadian football)


 * fourth down (US football)
 * second down (US and Canadian football)
 * third down (US and Canadian football)
 * top-down
 * upside down

Noun

 * Bulgarian:, мъх
 * Cornish: manbluv
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (poópoola)


 * Greenlandic: qivioq
 * Hungarian: pihe
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, пушок
 * Scots: doon
 * Scottish Gaelic: clòimh, clòimhteach
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: daun

Etymology
From English down.

Adjective

 * 1) Down, depressed.

Synonyms

 * depressief, depri

Anagrams

 * wond

Etymology
From English down.

Adjective

 * 1) Down, depressed.