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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

The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table.

From Time Magazine Archive

A moment later the car moves backward, dow n the driveway and onto the street, and vanishes behind the hedge.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

That caused the 20-day rolling correlation between oil prices and Treasury yields to take a sharp turn lower, touching its lowest level since late 2024, according to an analysis from Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 175.28 points, or 0.34%, to 52002.41.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which carries relatively little exposure to tech, edged lower by 0.3%, or 175 points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.80 points, or 1.08%, to 52178.28, and the S&P 500 gained 25.17 points, or 0.33%, to 7744.11, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite edged 20.16 points, or 0.08%, 26713.03.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

He has tane up a meikle stane, 10 And flang't as far as I cold see; Ein thouch I had been Wallace wicht, I dought na lift it to my knie.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

"I dought you vas a shentlemans," said the German, staring at him.

From Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

I neither dought to buy nor sell At fair or tryst, where I may be, I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye!’”

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

No dought thoult get a switchin When for mischief thou'rt itchin' Waw- - - -he!

From Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete by Albert Bigelow Paine

“Vel, I dought you was sick—you look bad, sir,” answered the good old pilot; “de sea is very rough, sir.”

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

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

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

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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