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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

"My whole practice is going out the win dow, and the case is beyond my control."

From Time Magazine Archive

I put it dow n and put my arms around him, pulling him closer.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

The Dow and Nasdaq began the month of October on pretty much the same footing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

S&P Dow Jones has since tweaked its index design to make such changes less disruptive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Dow industrials declined 0.3%, hurt by a revenue miss at Caterpillar, which lost 9%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

That’s the biggest such rise to start a term since Ben Bernanke was sworn in on Feb. 1, 2006, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 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

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

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

Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought, An’ did the buckskins claw, man; But Clinton’s glaive frae rust to save, He hung it to the wa’, man.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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 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

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

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

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