Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
Usage examples of "pass down".
Also similar to the alien abduction paradigm, satanic cult abuse is said to pass down from generation to generation in certain families.
Thus does a wrong work-habit pass down from generation to generation.
But he sighed, none the less, at the hard necessity that compelled him to pass down the street without once entering the doors of a tavern.
The corridors there were wide enough for a wagon to pass down easily, and taller than they were wide.
The white men, departing with the consent of all the chiefs, were to be allowed to pass down the river.
Then she got a little gift from God: During her first pass down Fountain Avenue, the Snake Pit had been closed—.
They say that in the ordering and placing those plumes some dark mysteries are represented, which pass down among their priests in a secret tradition concerning them.
They say, that in the ordering and placing those plumes some dark mysteries are represented, which pass down among their priests in a secret tradition concerning them.
Sparsit glide out of her carriage, pass down the wooden steps of the little station into a stony road, cross it into a green lane, and become hidden in a summer-growth of leaves and branches.
The land that he would pass down to his children, someday, hopefully in the far future.