adj · adv · name · noun · prep · verb · 98 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
12
adj
Meaning 12
Negative about; hostile to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
She's been down on clams since a bad case of food poisoning; she's lost her appetite for them.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
13
adj
Meaning 13
Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, slang
Examples
Near-synonyms: feel like, would like, fancy
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it.
Asker: Are you down to hang out at the mall? / Answerer: Yeah, as long as you're down with helping me pick a phone.
Asker: You down? Yes or no? / Answerer: You know I'm down for whatever.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: feel like, would like, fancy
Antonyms: none provided
14
adj
Meaning 14
Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
Examples
What you mean, 'No'? Man, I thought you was down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
15
adj
Meaning 15
Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Two down and three to go.
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
16
adj
Meaning 16
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
17
adj
Meaning 17
Downright; absolute; positive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
18
adj
Meaning 18
Fallen or felled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: limb; etc; limb; etc
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
19
adj
Meaning 19
Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
Examples
The down train leaves at 10:05.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: up
20
adv
Meaning 20
From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable, not-comparable, usually
Examples
The cat jumped down from the table.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
21
adv
Meaning 21
To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
Go down to the bottom of the page.
As I lay on my back, a pain shot down from my neck to my waist.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
22
adv
Meaning 22
At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable, not-comparable, usually
Examples
His place is farther down the road.
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
23
adv
Meaning 23
To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
I went down to Miami for a conference.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
24
adv
Meaning 24
Away from the city (regardless of direction).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
He went down to Cavan.
down on the farm
down to the country
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 12, But then my Servant who I had intended to take down with me [i.e. from London to Bedfordshire], deceiv’d me;
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
25
adv
Meaning 25
At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
She lives down by the park.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
26
adv
Meaning 26
Forward, straight ahead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
At the first intersection turn left and walk down, then turn right.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
27
adv
Meaning 27
In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
28
adv
Meaning 28
Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, not-comparable, usually
Topics: academia, scholarly, sciences
Examples
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
29
adv
Meaning 29
To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
30
adv
Meaning 30
Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
31
adv
Meaning 31
So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
You need to tone down the rhetoric.
Please turn the music down!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
32
adv
Meaning 32
So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
Trim the stick down to a length of about twelve inches.
Thanks to my strict diet, I've slimmed down to eleven stone.
Boil the mixture down to a syrupy consistency.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
33
adv
Meaning 33
From less to greater detail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
This spreadsheet lets you drill down to daily or even hourly sales figures.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
34
adv
Meaning 34
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
These traditions have been handed down over generations.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
35
adv
Meaning 35
Into a state of non-operation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
The computer has been shut down.
They closed the shop down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
36
adv
Meaning 36
So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
We need to nail down this carpet so people don't keep tripping over it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
37
adv
Meaning 37
On paper (or in a durable record).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
You need to write down what happened while it's still fresh in your mind.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
38
adv
Meaning 38
So as to be cowed into silence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
The speaker was heckled and shouted down.
The comedy club's audience was known for hooting down timid performers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
39
adv
Meaning 39
As a down payment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
We put £100 down on a new sofa.
You can have it, no money down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
40
adv
Meaning 40
In a downwards direction; vertically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Qualifier: crosswords
Examples
I'm stuck on 11 down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
41
adv
Meaning 41
Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
Examples
He closed operations. / He closed down operations.
He chased answers. / He chased down answers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
42
adv
Meaning 42
Get down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: imperative, not-comparable, usually
Qualifier: sentence substitute
Examples
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
43
name
Meaning 43
One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, usually known as County Down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
44
name
Meaning 44
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
45
noun
Meaning 45
A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
46
noun
Meaning 46
A grudge (on someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
47
noun
Meaning 47
A downer, depressant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
48
noun
Meaning 48
An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
49
noun
Meaning 49
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
50
noun
Meaning 50
A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: crosswording
Examples
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
51
noun
Meaning 51
The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
52
noun
Meaning 52
A downstairs room of a two-story house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
She lives in a two-up two-down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
53
noun
Meaning 53
Down payment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
54
noun
Meaning 54
The lightest quark with a charge number of −1⁄3.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
55
noun
Meaning 55
A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get the better of, overcome, defeat
95
verb
Meaning 95
eat immoderately
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: devour, consume, go through
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
96
verb
Meaning 96
drink down entirely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
He downed three martinis before dinner
She killed a bottle of brandy that night
They popped a few beer after work
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, drink down, kill
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drink, imbibe
97
verb
Meaning 97
cause to come or go down
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: knock down, cut down, push down, pull down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: strike
Narrower terms: submarine
98
verb
Meaning 98
shoot at and force to come down
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shoot down, land
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English doun, doune (“down”), from Old English dūne (“down”), aphetic form of adūne (“down, downward”), from earlier ofdūne (“down”, literally “off the hill”), from of (“of, off of”) + dūn (“hill, mount, dune, down”). More at Etymology 2 below. For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Old Frisian dene (“down”, adverb, literally “(to the) floor”), Middle Low German dāle (“down, downwards”, literally “(in/to the) dale/valley”), whence German Low German dal (“down”). Compare also Saterland Frisian deel (“down”, literally “to/into the dale”), West Frisian del (“down”). Cognate with Scots doon (“down”).
From Irish dún (“fortress, stronghold”).
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dūnaz? Proto-Indo-European *dewh2- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *duh2-nós? Proto-Celtic *dūnomder.? Proto-West Germanic *dūnā Old English dūn Middle English doune English down From Middle English doune, from Old English dūn, from Proto-West Germanic *dūn (“sandhill, dune”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz, *dūnǭ (“pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhewh2- (“smoke, haze, dust”). Alternatively, perhaps borrowed from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“hill; hillfort”) (compare Welsh din (“city, fort, stronghold”), Irish dún (“hill, fort”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhewh2- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with West Frisian dún (“dune, sandhill”), Dutch duin (“dune, sandhill”), German Düne (“dune”). More at town; akin to dune. Doublet of Down.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dhewh2- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *dhuh2nós Proto-Germanic *dūnaz Old Norse dúnnbor. Middle English doun English down From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhowh2-nis, from the root *dhewh2-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
Across languages
Translations
521 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
пониже́н
(ponižén)
— on a lower level than before
Catalan:
baix
— on a lower level than before
Danish:
lav
— on a lower level than before
Danish:
nedadgående
— on a lower level than before
Danish:
aftagende
— on a lower level than before
Dutch:
laag
— on a lower level than before
Esperanto:
malsupra
— on a lower level than before
Esperanto:
suba
— on a lower level than before
Finnish:
alempana
— on a lower level than before
Galician:
baixo
— on a lower level than before
German:
unten
— on a lower level than before
Macedonian:
намален
(namalen)
— on a lower level than before
Portuguese:
baixo
— on a lower level than before
Russian:
снижа́ющийся
(snižájuščijsja)
— on a lower level than before
Thai:
ต่ํา
(dtàm)
— on a lower level than before
Ukrainian:
зни́жений
(znýženyj)
— on a lower level than before
Bulgarian:
поти́снат
(potísnat)
— depressed
Bulgarian:
печа́лен
(pečálen)
— depressed
Bulgarian:
опечале́н
(opečalén)
— depressed
Catalan:
deprimit
— depressed
Catalan:
moix
— depressed
Danish:
langt nede
— depressed
Danish:
nede
— depressed
Danish:
deprimeret
— depressed
Dutch:
down
— depressed
Dutch:
depri
— depressed
Dutch:
depressief
— depressed
Finnish:
allapäin
— depressed
Finnish:
alakuloinen
— depressed
French:
dépressif
— depressed
Galician:
triste
— depressed
German:
down
— depressed
Macedonian:
потиштен
(potišten)
— depressed
Macedonian:
тажен
(tažen)
— depressed
Malay:
sedih
— depressed
Malay:
murung
— depressed
Portuguese:
triste
— depressed
Portuguese:
deprimido
— depressed
Portuguese:
borocoxô
— depressed
Romanian:
căzut
— depressed
Romanian:
deprimat
— depressed
Russian:
печа́льный
(pečálʹnyj)
— depressed
Russian:
пода́вленный
(podávlennyj)
— depressed
Scots:
dowie
— depressed
Spanish:
deprimido
— depressed
Swedish:
nere
— depressed
Ukrainian:
пригні́чений
(pryhníčenyj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
журбе́нний
(žurbénnyj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
зажу́рений
(zažúrenyj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
сумни́й
(sumnýj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
сумови́тий
(sumovýtyj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
сумува́тий
(sumuvátyj)
— depressed
Ukrainian:
журни́й
(žurnýj)
— depressed
Bulgarian:
гу́бя с
(gúbja s)
— having a lower score
Finnish:
alempana
— having a lower score
Bulgarian:
проти́вен
(protíven)
— negative or hostile to
Bulgarian:
вражде́бен
(vraždében)
— negative or hostile to
Hungarian:
pikkel
— negative or hostile to
Bulgarian:
нави́т
(navít)
— comfortable with
Bulgarian:
неизпра́вен
(neizpráven)
— inoperable; out of service
Bulgarian:
не рабо́ти
(ne rabóti)
— inoperable; out of service
Finnish:
alhaalla
— inoperable; out of service
French:
hors-service
— inoperable; out of service
French:
HS
— inoperable; out of service
Hungarian:
nem működik
— inoperable; out of service
Hungarian:
nem üzemel
— inoperable; out of service
Hungarian:
üzemen kívül van
— inoperable; out of service
Korean:
멈춘
(meomchun)
— inoperable; out of service
Portuguese:
em baixo
— inoperable; out of service
Russian:
лежащий
(ležaščij)
— inoperable; out of service
Ukrainian:
зла́маний
(zlámanyj)
— inoperable; out of service
Ukrainian:
не працю́є
(ne pracjúje)
— inoperable; out of service
Bulgarian:
гото́в
(gotóv)
— finished; dealt with
Bulgarian:
пребо́рен
(prebóren)
— finished; dealt with
Bulgarian:
па́днал
(pádnal)
— wounded or killed
Bulgarian:
повале́н
(povalén)
— wounded or killed
Bulgarian:
свале́н
(svalén)
— wounded or killed
Bulgarian:
свале́н
(svalén)
— (aircraft) unable to fly