come down to us

verb

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

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Meanings

verbcome down to us (third-person singular simple present comes down to us, present participle coming down to us, simple past came down to us, past participle come down to us)

present singular third person comes down to us · participle present coming down to us · past came down to us

  1. idiomaticTo 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.

    1858, Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, volume 1, page 138
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    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.

    2002, Alexander J. Morin, editor, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, page 638

    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.

    2003, Vivien Law, The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600, page 170
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