adown
/uh-doun/US // əˈdaʊn //
跌倒,跌落,跌宕起伏,跌幅
Definitions
- 1
Archaic.
- : down.
Examples
A day that with joy is bubbling—And dancing adown a world mad-gay?
I thought it would be nice to go adown the path and pipe a forest song to the mamma of the gladness of the spring.
Our horses, though they purposely are left unshod, make a prodigious clatter as they stumble adown the rough, uneven way.
The shawl which Mrs. Allen had folded over her shoulders from fear of cold, hung loosely adown her long night robe.
He can brave a moonlight walk adown sweet-scented lanes or a twilight pull among the somber rushes.
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