"come down to us" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes down to us",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming down to us",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came down to us",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come down to us",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> down to us"
      },
      "expansion": "come 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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, volume 1, page 138",
          "text": "It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Alexander J. Morin, editor, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, page 638",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Vivien Law, The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600, page 170",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "survive",
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        [
          "extant",
          "extant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "come down to us"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes down to us",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming down to us",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came down to us",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come down to us",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "come<,,came,come> down to us"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
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          "text": "It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Alexander J. Morin, editor, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, page 638",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Vivien Law, The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600, page 170",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form."
      ],
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        ],
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          "extant",
          "extant"
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        "(idiomatic) To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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