hand down from to



hand something down from someone to someone

to pass something down through many generations. I hope we can make it a tradition to hand this down from generation to generation. My descendants will hand down this watch from generation to generation.
See also: down, hand

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Gema-Spanish
Apolinarah-po-lee-NAHRSpanish
AbelAY-bəl (English), ah-BEL (Spanish), ə-BEL (Portuguese)English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Vespasianus-Ancient Roman
Onur-Turkish
MuadhnaitMOO-natIrish