Meaning of Downs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The South Downs.
3. A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
4. Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884.
   UK, historical, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Let's go for a walk on the Downs.”

“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.”

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