hand-down

1. 1.

   passed on from one person to another

   “not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes”

   Synonymshand-me-down

   Similarold

Questions about hand-down

What does hand-down mean?

hand-down means "passed on from one person to another".

How many syllables are in hand-down?

hand-down has 2 syllables: hand--down. The stress falls on "hand-".

What is another word for hand-down?

Close synonyms include hand-me-down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand-down a common word?

hand-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.