Dictionary Definition
fall
Noun
1 the season when the leaves fall from the trees;
"in the fall of 1973" [syn: autumn]
3 the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of
the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the
Fall"
4 a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: ascent]
5 a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of
chastity; "a fall from virtue"
6 a sudden decline in strength or number or
importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: downfall] [ant: rise]
7 a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the
tides" [ant: rise]
8 the act of surrendering (under agreed
conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the
fort" [syn: capitulation, surrender]
9 the time of day immediately following sunset;
"he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
[syn: twilight,
dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
10 when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the
mat [syn: pin]
11 a free and rapid descent by the force of
gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that
height" [syn: drop]
12 a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a
drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in
pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that
became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn:
drop, dip, free
fall]
Verb
1 descend in free fall under the influence of
gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker
fell into a crevasse"
2 move downward and lower, but not necessarily
all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is
falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and
then fell again" [syn: descend, go down, come down]
[ant: rise, ascend]
3 pass suddenly and passively into a state of
body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of
favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter";
"fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after
she lost her work"
4 come under, be classified or included; "fall
into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: come]
5 fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were
falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on
Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come
down]
6 suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand
or fall"; "fall by the wayside"
7 decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount
of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin
pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred
pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen] [ant: increase]
8 die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers
fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The
shooting victim fell dead"
9 touch or seem as if touching visually or
audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields";
"The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my
ears" [syn: shine,
strike]
10 be captured; "The cities fell to the
enemy"
11 occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas
falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first
syllable"
12 yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve
fell"
13 lose office or power; "The government fell
overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"
14 to be given by assignment or distribution;
"The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team";
"The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest
student"
15 move in a specified direction; "The line of
men fall forward"
16 be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the
month"
17 lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"
18 to be given by right or inheritance; "The
estate fell to the oldest daughter"
19 come into the possession of; "The house
accrued to the oldest son" [syn: accrue]
20 fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The
task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the
victims" [syn: light]
21 be inherited by; "The estate fell to my
sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to
an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: return, pass, devolve]
22 slope downward; "The hills around here fall
towards the ocean"
23 lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase
fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell
across her forehead" [syn: fall
down]
24 drop oneself to a lower or less erect
position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his
knees"
25 fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress
hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn:
hang, flow]
26 assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her
face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest
fell"
27 be cast down; "his eyes fell"
28 come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her
mouth"
29 be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs
fell in the afternoon"
30 begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work
right away"
31 go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our
hearts"
32 come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence
fell" [syn: descend,
settle] [also: fell, fallen]fallen adj
1 having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen
leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree
trunk"
2 having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen
building"
3 having lost your chastity; "a fallen
woman"
4 killed in battle; "to honor fallen
soldiers"fallen See fall
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK: /ˈfɔːlən/, /"fO:l@n/
Verb
fallen- past participle of fall
Adjective
- having dropped by the force of gravity
- fallen raindrops
- killed in battle
- to honor fallen soldiers
- having lost one's chastity
- a fallen woman
- having collapsed
- a fallen building
Synonyms
- italbrac having collapsed: collapsed
Derived terms
- chap-fallen, chapfallen
- chop-fallen, chopfallen
- crest-fallen, crestfallen
- down-fallen, downfallen
- fallen angel
- fallen arch
- fallen building clause
- fallen flag
- fallen fleece
- fallen-in
- fallen instep
- fallenness
- fallen-off
- fallen star
- fallen woman
- heaven-fallen
- how are the mighty fallen
- infallen
- jaw-fallen
- new-fallen
- root-fallen
- sick-fallen
- stitchfallen
- trade-fallen
- unfallen
- wind-fallen, windfallen
Translations
having dropped by the force of gravity
- Finnish: pudonnut
killed in battle
having lost one's chastity
- Finnish: langennut
having collapsed
- Finnish: romahtanut, sortunut
Noun
- The Devil
- An evil spirit, a fiend
- The dead
- Casualties of battle or war.
Translations
the Devil
- Finnish: paholainen
an evil spirit, a fiend
German
Etymology
Old High German fallanPronunciation
Verb
fallen- To fall.
- To fall (in battle)
- Er fiel für sein Vaterland - "He died for his country"
Related terms
- Gefallener
- Falle
- gefallen
- hinfallen
- anfallen
- abfallen
- fällen
- zufallen
- gefällig
- Fallbeil
- zerfallen
- verfallen
- Fall
Swedish
Noun
- definite plural of fall
Verb
- past participle of falla
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Fallen could refer to:
- Fallen angels, angels that have been exiled or banished from Heaven
- Fallen (album), the 2003 breakthrough debut album by the alternative rock band Evanescence
- "Fallen" (song), a song produced by Luiz Bonfá and performed by (among others) Mya
- "Fallen" (Sarah McLachlan song), a song by Sarah McLachlan from her 2003 album, Afterglow
- Fallen Footwear, the footwear brand that sponsors skateboarder Jamie Thomas
- Fallen (For My Pain album), a debut album of finnish gothic-metal group For My Pain.
Films:
- Fallen (film), a 1998 film starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, and Donald Sutherland
- the german original title of an Austrian drama film by Barbara Albert, see Falling (film)
Television:
- "Fallen" (Stargate SG-1) an episode of the science-fiction series Stargate SG-1
- "Fallen" (Transformers episode), an episode of the Transformers: Cybertron series
- The pilot episode of the television series Whistler
- Fallen (ABC Family Miniseries), a 2006-7 miniseries starring Paul Wesley and directed by Mikael Salomon.
See also
- The Fallen disambiguation
fallen in Norwegian: Fallen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Adamic,
Circean, abated, ablated, all up with, animal, animalistic, apostate, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest,
atheistic, attenuated, ausgespielt, backsliding, bankrupt, bated, beastlike, beastly, beat, beaten, belittled, bereft of life,
bested, bestial, blasphemous, blasted, blighted, bodily, breathless, broken, brutal, brute, brutish, called home, carnal, carnal-minded, carrion, coarse, confounded, consumed, contracted, croaked, curtailed, dead, dead and gone, death-struck,
debased, deceased, decreased, defeated, deflated, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life,
depressed, desolated, destitute of life,
destroyed, devastated, diminished, discomfited, dissipated, done for, done
in, down, down-and-out,
downcast, downthrown, dropped, earthy, eroded, erring, exanimate, fallen from grace,
finished, fixed, fleshly, floored, food for worms,
frail, gone, gone to glory, gone to pot,
gone west, gross, harlot, hors de combat, hustling, impious, impure, in ruins, inanimate, infirm, irreligious, irremediable, irreverent, kaput, lambasted, lapsed, late, late lamented, lathered, launched into
eternity, less, lesser, licked, lifeless, low, lower, lowered, martyred, material, materialistic, meretricious, miniaturized, no more,
nonspiritual, not
done, of easy virtue, on the, on the skids, on the town, orgiastic, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, passed on, pave, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, prodigal, profanatory, profane, prostitute, prostituted, prostrate, pushing up daisies,
put to rout, rare, ravaged, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, reduced, released, renegade, reposing, resting easy,
retrenched, routed, ruined, ruinous, sacrilegious, saignant, sainted, scaled-down, scarlet, scattered, settled, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, sleeping, smaller, smitten with death,
sodden, spoiled, stampeded, still, stillborn, streetwalking, submerged, sunk, sunken, swinish, taken away, taken off,
trimmed, trounced, unangelic, unchaste, unclean, undercooked, underdone, undone, undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual, unvirtuous, upset, virtueless, wanton, wasted, watered-down, wayward, weak, weakened, whelmed, whipped, whorish, with the Lord, with the
saints, without life, without vital functions, worn, worsted, wrecked