godown

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noun

go·​down ˈgō-ˌdau̇n How to pronounce godown (audio)
: a warehouse in a country of southern or eastern Asia

go down

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verb

went down; gone down; going down; goes down

intransitive verb

1
a
: to go below the horizon : set
the sun went down
b
: to fall to or as if to the ground
the plane went down in flames
c
: to become submerged : sink
the ship went down with all hands
2
: to admit of being swallowed
the medicine went down easily
3
a
: to find acceptance
will the plan go down with the farmers
b
: to come to be remembered especially in posterity
will he go down in history as a great president
4
British : to leave a university
5
a
: to undergo defeat or failure
b
chiefly British : to become incapacitated
went down with … acute tonsillitisHelen Cathcart
6
slang : to take place : happen
Phrases
go down on
usually vulgar : to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on

Examples of godown in a Sentence

Verb when's the drug deal supposed to go down?
Recent Examples on the Web
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Noun
Everything surfeit went to the property’s godown. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 Tegh Singh arrives and unloads his bundles of blossoms in Kapoor’s godown, an open-air stone courtyard that serves as the distillery. Rachna Sachasinh, National Geographic , 4 Jan. 2021 From across the Singapore River this trio of former godowns (warehouses) cuts a striking profile. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
Verb
The quality of the at-bat might go down a little bit. Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025 Senior center Ross Ulugalu-Maseuli went down five minutes into the period. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025 Those prompts might serve to reduce the AI’s default tendencies and keep the AI from going down rabbit holes with the person. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 Daniels went down with a pectoral injury after just three offensive plays, while Duck hurt his ankle in the second quarter. Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 Jayson Tatum went down with a torn Achilles in the second round against the New York Knicks. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025 Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain. Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025 Avrich talks to Deadline in regards to how this went down. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 So our guard went down and the camera might be hidden in the kitchen and shooting through the blinds. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Noun

by folk etymology from Malay gudang

First Known Use

Noun

1552, in the meaning defined above

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of godown was in the 14th century

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“Godown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godown. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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