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

The budget shows salaries and benefits going up more than $300,000 and services and supplies going down nearly $200,000. —Nina Burns, CBS News, 19 June 2026

The aircraft went down while on a test mission in support of a radar modernization program, generating a large plume of smoke visible from miles away. —Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 18 June 2026

In Nevada, the carrier count went down from 34 to 25 in the two years after implementing the rule. —Sylvia Gordon, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Thursday night’s game will go down as a forfeit, the Revolution said. —David K. Li, NBC news, 18 June 2026

But even after going down double digits, the Wings never went away. —Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina went down a man in the 80th minute when defender Tarik Muharemovic was shown a straight red card for a foul just outside the box. —Josh Gross, Oc Register, 18 June 2026

The exact day this went down isn’t revealed in the video. —Chris Willman, Variety, 18 June 2026

Gardiner was arrested in May after a plane carrying him and 10 others went down during a flight from Marsh Harbor, Abaco, to Grand Bahama. —Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 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