Setdown

Quick meaning: Setdown is a noun meaning The act of setting down something or someone.

Meaning

The act of setting down something or someone.

More Meanings

1. The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).
2. (US, slang, obsolete) A person’s buttocks.
3. (dated) The humbling of a person by act or words.
4. (dated) A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
5. (slang, obsolete) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.

Example Sentences

setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles

The medic would have to hold them on hover and watch the radar for a clear setdown.

The [tour] bus brought them to the next setdown point, the gravesites of John and Robert Kennedy.

You had almost no time, yet you autorotate at barely three hundred feet to make a perfect setdown on this flyspot. That was incredible flying.

Word Forms

• setdowns
• set-down

Synonyms for setdown

Depending on context, synonyms include landing, touchdown, put-down.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include set-down, downsetting, dismission, dismount, disestablishment, lay-down.

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