adown

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adown

/əˈdaʊn/

Where it comes from

From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way).

adverb

archaic, not comparable Down, downward; to or in a lower place. Thrice did she sink adown.

preposition

archaic Down. I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a multitu

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@misc{adown_2026,
  title = {adown},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adown},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}