Downs
See also: downs and Down's
English
Proper noun
The Downs
- (Sussex) the South Downs.
- Let's just go for a walk on the Downs.
- A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
- 1771, James Cook, diary
- 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.
- 1771, James Cook, diary
- A surname.
See also
The Downs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Downs (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- nowds, sdown, sownd