set down
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
British usage; Transitive verb
verb
To land.
Example Sentences
- "I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience."
- "Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army."
- "This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by."
- "They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand."
- "The bush pilot set down on a sandbar."
- "“I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———”"
Usage
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Obsolete