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pass down en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
    • "Our language is unwritten and our history and our deeds are passed down from father to son," Wazir Ghulam Mahdi told me. 1987 October, Galen Rowell, “Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 526:
    • In poor families, solid clothes are passed down from elder children to kid siblings, who must wear them out or if they outgrow them pass them down to still younger relatives.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, down.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
passing down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
passed down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
passed down Tense=Past lexicographic
passes down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

pass it down · passdown

Relateds

inherit · hand down

Translations (6)

fr transmettre (to hand over) · it passare (to hand over) · es heredar (to hand over) · es pasar (to hand over) · nl doorgeven (to hand over) · pl przekazać (to hand over)