What does come down to us mean?

come down to us

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.41 in modern English

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To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form.

"It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us."
"There is some confusion about this work since the original has disappeared, and scholars have assumed that what has come down to us is not by Mozart."
"As you’ll have noticed, a large number of pre-Renaissance writings on language have come down to us without any indication of their author’s name, or with a false one attached."

comes down to us (present, singular) coming down to us (participle, present) came down to us (past)

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