come down to us
verbDefinitions
To survive to the present day
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for come down to us. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA