godown

1 of 2

noun

go·​down ˈgō-ˌdau̇n 

: a warehouse in a country of southern or eastern Asia

go down

2 of 2

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

a

: to drop to a lower level

prices going down

b

: to become smaller

The swelling has gone down.

c

: to become less bright

The lights went down as the movie started.

3

—used to say how easy or hard it is to swallow something

The medicine went down easily.

4

a

: to please or agree with one

—used with with and an adverb

My suggestion didn't go down well with the boss.

b

: to come to be remembered especially in posterity

Will they go down in history as great leaders?

5

British : to leave a university

6

a

: to lose or fail

went down in the third round

b

chiefly British : to become incapacitated

… went down with … acute tonsillitis …

—Helen Cathcart

c

of a computer, system, etc. : to stop working

The network went down this morning.

7

slang : to take place : happen

see also:

go down on

Synonyms of godown

Verb

• happen
• come down
• be

Examples of godown in a Sentence

Verb

when's the drug deal supposed to go down?

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Hotel turns three 1890s godowns, the old riverside warehouses where traders once stored their goods, into a 37-room boutique hotel on Robertson Quay. — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

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

Thankfully, there are self-aware jabs as well, and it’s all couched in a character- and ensemble-centric ending that has hearty portions that help the random sour bite go down smoothly. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 June 2026

Grown men took delight in hitting one of the beach balls — some painted like soccer balls — that floated through the air during the walk, which started at the Power & Light District, went down Grand Boulevard and ended at Fan Fest. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026

Pughsley, one of the last old-school American bookies, with a salesman’s knack for generating business and a website that was ahead of its time, was going down, and the people around him were, too. — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026

The two powerful earthquakes that hit Venezuela on Wednesday -- each measuring more than magnitude 7 and coming within moments of each other -- will likely go down as the most devastating and deadly in the country in modern history. — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 25 June 2026

The dancefloor is fun and all, but the ladies room is where the real drama goes down. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026

The outfit was intentional for the bride who also sought to break the Guinness World Record for the most times a bride has gone down a water slide in a wedding dress. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

Xhaka was about to take a free kick when Larin blocked him and went down on the pitch. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 June 2026

Around Christmas 2024 the Estlink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia went down after a shadow-fleet tanker, the Eagle S, dragged its anchor across the seabed. — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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

Rhymes for godown

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• hometown
• knockdown