adown

[ uh-doun ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. down ¹.

Word History and Origins

Origin of adown¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English adoun, Old English of dūne “off the hill.” See a- ², down ¹

Example Sentences

A day that with joy is bubbling—And dancing adown a world mad-gay?

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I thought it would be nice to go adown the path and pipe a forest song to the mamma of the gladness of the spring.

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Our horses, though they purposely are left unshod, make a prodigious clatter as they stumble adown the rough, uneven way.

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The shawl which Mrs. Allen had folded over her shoulders from fear of cold, hung loosely adown her long night robe.

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He can brave a moonlight walk adown sweet-scented lanes or a twilight pull among the somber rushes.

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