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Downs

//daʊnz// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    The South Downs.

    "Let's go for a walk on the Downs."

  3. 3
    A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.

    "On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal."

  4. 4
    Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884. UK, historical, obsolete, slang
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of down form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of down form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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