Usually means: Depressions or low points geographically.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Down's, Downs, downs: Merriam-Webster
  2. downs, the Downs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Downs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downs, the Downs: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Downs, downs: Vocabulary.com
  6. Down's, Downs, down's, downs: Wordnik
  7. downs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Down's, Downs, downs: Wiktionary
  9. downs, the downs: Dictionary.com
  10. downs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Downs (nautical), Downs (surname), Downs, The Downs (Bristol), The Downs (ship anchorage), The Downs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Downs: Rhymezone
  13. Downs, The Downs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downs, The Downs: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Down's, Downs, The Downs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Downs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Down's, Downs, The Downs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downs: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. downs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Downs, the downs: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downs: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Downs)

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

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pull down, declining, Falling, pour down, downward, shoot down, knock down, toss off, go through, descending, more...

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syndrome, disorder, chromosomal, more...

Phrases:
South Downs, Darling Downs, Churchill Downs, North Downs, first downs, more...

Adjectives:
put, hand, first, shut, open, sit, slow, break, and, mark, high

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Similar:
pull down, declining, Falling, pour down, downward, shoot down, knock down, toss off, go through, descending, more...

Types:
syndrome, disorder, chromosomal, more...

Phrases:
South Downs, Darling Downs, Churchill Downs, North Downs, first downs, sussex downs, downs syndrome, Epsom Downs, Hugh Downs, put downs, pull downs, Hackney Downs, break downs, tie downs, ruidoso downs, more...

Adjectives:
put, hand, first, shut, open, sit, slow, break, and, mark, high

Colors:
    gray,     blue,     white,     black,     brown, more...



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