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Adown

//əˈdaʊn// adv, prep

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Down, downward; to or in a lower place. archaic, not-comparable

    "Thrice did she sink adown."

Preposition
  1. 1
    Down. archaic

    "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 multitude of people […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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).

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