Adown
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈdaʊn/ · Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Adown is an adverb meaning (archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
Meaning
(archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Down.
Example Sentences
Thrice did she sink adown.
Before yon field of trembling gold Is garnered into dusty sheaves, Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves Flutter as birds adown the wold, […]
Many a family circle wept as they looked upon the familiar places, which would know their lost ones no more; but ah, chide me not, kind reader, in thus leading you adown to the coldness of death, in setting before you that which causes your tender heart to shudder.
[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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include derry, daown, downe, doune, dahn, downdip.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.