downcome

[ doun-kuhm ]

noun

1. a downcomer.
2. Archaic. descent or downfall; comedown; humiliation.

downcome

/ ˈdaʊnˌkʌm /

noun

1. archaic.
   downfall
2. another name for downcomer

Word History and Origins

Origin of downcome¹

First recorded in 1505–15; down ¹ + come

Example Sentences

It was 'an awfu downcome; they stared at each other without perfectly understanding the nature of my announcement.

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My ain grandfather, who was the son of a great farmer, hired himsell for a shepherd at that time to young Tam Linton; and mony ane was wae for the downcome.

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But we'll just come to the right set again in a generation or twa; and then, as soon as we get ower hee, we'll get a downcome in our turn.—But, master, I say, how will you grand gentlemen tak wi' a shepherd's life?

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Then was I very croose at the manner of our coming off, and minded not that the hardest blaff of downcome is ever gotten at the doorstep.

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What a downcome from his dignity to be the patron of a golf course or the chaplain of a curling club, instead of enjoying the fame and name of the holy well.

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