adown

American  

[uh-doun] / əˈdaʊn /

adverb

Archaic.

1. down.

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Etymology

Origin of adown

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

Example Sentences

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adown

"Giles is coming now, adown the way with a stranger; is this Mr. Weston?" asked Dame Eliza.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

Will he train rivulets adown the mountains into stone fountains by dusty roadsides?

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

And adown the green valley, while morn shone so fair, The breeze sigh'd, and left the young bud weeping there! carlos.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

Its dynamic vehemence had cleft a fearful way through the crags on either side of it, and adown its course one could see black hulks of rock that projected out from the swirling flood.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

And then adown the river made for a neighboring wood.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown