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• dow
  dow

  verb (used without object)

  to be able.
• Dow
  Dow

  noun

  none the Dow or the Dow Jones a shortened form of Dow Jones average.
• Dow.
  Dow.

  abbreviation

  dowager.

dow

¹ American  

[dau, doh] / daʊ, doʊ /

verb (used without object)

Scot. and North England.

dowed, dought, dowing

1. to be able.

2. to thrive; prosper; do well.

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Dow ² American  

[dau] / daʊ /

noun

1. none the Dow or the Dow Jones a shortened form of Dow Jones average.

   The Dow is up nearly 8,400 points from its record low on February 12.

   The 7 percent drop in the Dow Jones was a harbinger of the precipice on which the economy was then hanging.

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Dow ³ American  

[dau] / daʊ /

noun

1. Charles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.

2. Gerrard Dou, Gerard.

3. Herbert Henry, 1866–1930, U.S. chemist, inventor, and industrialist.

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Dow. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. dowager.

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Dow British  

/ daʊ, dɔu /

noun

1. See Dou

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Etymology

Origin of dow

before 900; Middle English dowen, doghen, Old English dugan to be worthy; cognate with German taugen; cf. doughty

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Example Sentences

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dow Dow Dow. dought dowed

Two years ago, the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda was also forced to step dow n in a bribery scandal connected to vote-buying involving IOC members.

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021

The heat from the radiator beneath the win- dow made her damp clothes hot and uncomfortable.

From The Verge ● Jun. 17, 2018

The broader market however was weighed dow n by losses in industrial, financial and technology stocks.

From Time ● Oct. 17, 2017

One Lucknow father who earns $38 a month and had al ready spent $1,000 on his daughter's dow ry was staggered when his son-in-law asked for a $95 radio as a Kalvan gift.

From Time Magazine Archive

But next day, though she still brought out our food, she set it dow n and left even faster than her grandma used to do.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Nasdaq futures slipped 0.2%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were flat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Still, Wall Street-listed tech firms rallied, pulling the Nasdaq and S&P 500 higher along with the Dow.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, the Sept. 15 settlement in price of $108.75 a barrel was 1% higher than that of Sept. 10, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The S&P 500, whose largest sector by far is tech, had a forward dividend yield of 1.38% as recently as Friday, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 449 points, to its lowest level in four years, and most of the market-moving news was coming not from the private sector but from government officials.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Spent evening at Mrs. B.'s, talking with Neal Dow. 9th.—Cold and blowy and disagreeable.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss

"I dought neither speak to prince nor peer,   Nor ask for grace from fair ladye!"

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

I neither dought to buy or sell   At fair or tryst where I might be.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

But Dickie’s heart it grew so great That never a bitt of it he dought to eat; But Dickie was warr of ane auld peat-house, Where there al the night he thought for to sleep.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

I counsel yow remembre how It is noo maydens lawe, Nothing to dought, but to renne out To wod with an outlawe.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

A gudely gift ye wad gie me!I neither dought to buy nor sell,At fair or tryst where I may be.

From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang

By some poetical caprice, Our atmosphere of mist and cloud, With rare exotic charm's increase This other Petra Camara dowed.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee

Twin-born, of equal stature, kindred soul Are we; like dowed with strength.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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