to pass down
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2.8
- phrasal verb
- /pæs daʊn/
:
transmitir
- Tales passed down from the old to the young.
- pass down through generations
- pass down traditions
- pass down knowledge
And it is the gift of poets that they pass down things for generations.
- And it is the gift of poets that they pass down things for generations.
- Bows, Sabres and lances were often passed down as family heirlooms.
- People say that I'm a bully, but I'm just passing down what I learned from my dad.
- So, you know, the, the, the data is passed down through an oral tradition.
- Interestingly, a lot of these style roles are passed down from mothers to their children.
- And you'll notice the ones that did things wrong, they pass down the money but not the habits.
- Then this one in particular passed down to us from a guy named Arnobius of Sicko.
- I still don't know from, you know, who amongst my family passed down any creative genes my way.
- I don't want to see people continuing these generational curses of passing down the lifestyle to kids.
- The thought was for a long time that trauma is passed down by role modeling.
- Before Huell's reign, Welsh law was a jumble of regional customs passed down orally through the poems of bards.
- And now I'm living out to sort of see it through and also pass down these values to my children.
- And I decided that I wanted to, to have this and maybe pass it down to my own kids.
Examples
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The recipe for the family stew has been passed down from my grandmother to my mother and now to me.
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These relics have been passed down through the generations.
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And I decided that I wanted to, to have this and maybe pass it down to my own kids.
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And now I'm living out to sort of see it through and also pass down these values to my children.
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The formula has been passed down in our family through generations.
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The recipe's been passed down for decades.
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And it is the gift of poets that they pass down things for generations.
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The stories of their struggles became new memories they could pass down across the generations.
Academic text (2008) -
Both elders and teens spoke of their cultural knowledge that was passed down through the generations.
Academic text (2000) -
Throughout the world, musical traditions are often passed down from generation to generation by respected elder music masters.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
134
2.7
To give something to another person, often information or a message
76
2.5
Give news, a message, or something you received to another person
49
3.6
Give objects, knowledge, or traditions to younger people in your family
Antonyms
How Preserved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to transmit from a parent to its children' is directly derivable from 'pass' (to transfer) plus 'down' (to a lower level or next generation). This downward-transfer composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., pass down a tradition or inheritance), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will generally infer the intended programming sense even if the technical term 'props' is domain-specific.
Etymology
Pass down comes from the simple image of the two parts, pass and down: an older person gives something and it moves down to the next generation, like a grandparent handing a recipe book to a child. So pass down means 'to give or teach something to younger people or to the next generation'.