down to

preposition

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, to.

“Go down to the shops.”

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Meanings

preposition
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, to.

    Go down to the shops.

    2 more examples

    I had to walk down to the ground floor.

    Her hair came down to her waist.

  2. Ready or willing to (do something specified).

    Are you down to go to the cinema?

    1 more example

    Hey, I'm always down to make art together if you want.

    2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (13:43 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Zooble (Ashley Nichols)
  3. With no one/nothing remaining but.

    I'm down to my last few sleeping pills.

  4. Within the responsibility or influence of.

    So I guess the cooking is now down to me.

    1 more example

    What type of person you become is down to you.

    Synonyms: up to

  5. Due to; because of.

    The failure was down to total neglect.

    3 more examples

    It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to / Down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb.

    1966, The Rolling Stones, Under My Thumb

    The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds.

    2005, Stel Pavlou, Decipher

    That difficulty is down to significant natural variations in average Antarctic stratospheric springtime ozone levels from year to year

    2011 May 16, James Mitchell Crow, “First signs of ozone-hole recovery spotted”, in Nature
  6. Including even the smallest parts.

    We checked everything down to the last/smallest detail.

  7. Until, up to.

    In flowing away, the water hollowed out the deep valleys and left standing the high mountains which we see today; for down to the time of the great flood the earth had been level.

    1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 199

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositionWithin the responsibility or influence of.

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APA

down to. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20to

MLA

“down to.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20to. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “down to,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20to.

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