Noun: down
Sample Sentences
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I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
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She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 10:]
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I am on drugs that I don't need to be on. They feel if I'm on a lot of downs, then I won't complain about my prison life [1984 December 29, Gena Spero, “Innocent Lesbian In Prison”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:]
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I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
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I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
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She lives in a two-up two-down.
Nouns inflected like down
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English doun, doune (“down”), from Old English dūne (“down”), aphetic form of adūne (“down, downward”), from earlier ofdūne (“down”, literally “off the hill”), from of (“of, off of”) + dūn (“hill, mount, dune, down”). More at Etymology 2 below. For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Old Frisian dene (“down”, adverb, literally “(to the) floor”), Middle Low German dāle (“down, downwards”, literally “(in/to the) dale/valley”), whence German Low German dal (“down”). Compare also Saterland Frisian deel (“down”, literally “to/into the dale”), West Frisian del (“down”). Cognate with Scots doon (“down”). See: Old English Nouns '
dūne'.
Verbs referencing "down"
French Nouns
duvet.