Down

From Irish dún (“fortress, stronghold”).

• IPA^(key): /daʊn/
• Rhymes: -aʊn
• Homophone: down

Down

1. One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, usually known as County Down.
2. A surname.

• Placenames Database of Ireland

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Down”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 485.
• Forebears

• nowd

Down f (uncountable)

1. (informal) ellipsis of síndrome de Down