put down

Questions about put down

What does put down mean?

put down means "cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for put down?

Close synonyms include set down, place down, lay, repose, land. 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 put down a common word?

put down is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.