- Types Of Speech
- You can use down as a article, noun, adverb, adjective satellite or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Down
- A 1 syllables article and 4 letters with the letters d, n, o, and w, 3 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters ow. Down starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, do, dow, and the ending characters are n, wn, own, ..
- Definition
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Down is set as a kindergarten word that starts with d, ends with n, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 4 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is down a scrabble word? A 8 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Down in Pig Latin is said as "ownday or owndway".
- Unigram
- d | o | w | n
- Bigram
- do | ow | wn
- Trigram
- dow | own
- Quadrigram
- down
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football;
"you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards" - soft fine feathers
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- English physician who first described down's syndrome (1828-1896)
- Verb Examples
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;
"refine one's style of writing" - bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- eat immoderately;
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" - drink down entirely;
"He downed three martinis before dinner";
"She killed a bottle of brandy that night";
"They popped a few beer after work" - cause to come or go down;
"The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect";
"The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" - shoot at and force to come down;
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase;
"the down payment";
"a payment of $200 down" - not functioning (temporarily or permanently);
"we can't work because the computer is down" - cut down;
"the tree is down" - shut;
"the shades were down" - understood perfectly;
"had his algebra problems down"
- Article Examples
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value;
"lay face down";
"the moon is down";
"our team is down by a run";
"down by a pawn";
"the stock market is down today"
- Adverb Examples
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position;
"don't fall down";
"rode the lift up and skied down";
"prices plunged downward" - away from a more central or a more northerly place;
"was sent down to work at the regional office";
"worked down on the farm";
"came down for the wedding";
"flew down to Florida" - paid in cash at time of purchase;
"put ten dollars down on the necklace" - in an inactive or inoperative state;
"the factory went down during the strike";
"the computer went down again" - to a lower intensity;
"he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" - from an earlier time;
"the story was passed down from father to son"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| About Face | |
| Abraded | having the skin scraped off "skinned knees and scraped elbows" |
| Absolute | something that is conceived to be absolute something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control "no mortal being can influence the absolute" |
| Absorb | cause to become one with "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
| Accomplished | successfully completed or brought to an end "his mission accomplished he took a vacation" "the completed project" "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" |
| Actively | in an active manner "he participated actively in the war" |
| Adown | |
| Ailing | somewhat ill or prone to illness "my poor ailing grandmother" "feeling a bit indisposed today" "you look a little peaked" "feeling poorly" "a sickly child" "is unwell and can''t come to work" |
| Ailment | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease a cause for complaining |
| Air | travel via aircraft "air travel involves too much waiting in airports" "if you''ve time to spare go by air" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Down
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Down | (American football) a complete play to advance the football "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards" |
View English words with the unique letters used in down. Words With The Letters Dnow
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Play | the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully |
| Turn | taking a short walk out and back "we took a turn in the park" |
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Downing | No | No |
| Downey | No | No |
| Down | No | Yes |
| Sundown | Yes | Yes |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe down | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Down (4 letters) | 8 | 9 | down | ||
| Wodan (5 letters) | 9 +1 | 10 +1 | adown | ||
| Downy (5 letters) | 12 +4 | 12 +3 | downy | ||
| Adown (5 letters) | 9 +1 | 10 +1 | adown |
Down Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With N
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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