hand down
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.28 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.
verb
To donate (as second hand.)
Example Sentences
- "Fables are handed down from age to age."
- "Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged."
- "The jury handed down a verdict of guilty."
- "Justice James A. Burke, who presided over the trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, could have sentenced Mr. Weinstein to as little as five years, but he heeded the arguments of prosecutors who urged him to hand down a long sentence."
- "UN experts alarmed by sentences handed down to human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa on lèse-majesté charges"
- "The Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision."