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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-, *spōl- (“to fall”). Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Lithuanian pùlti, Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “bring down, destroy, cause to stumble, deceive”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell or (in archaic sense only) felled, past participle fallen or (in archaic sense only) felled)

A sign warning about the danger of falling rocks.
  1. (intransitive) To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
    Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
  2. (intransitive) To come down, to drop or descend.
    The rain fell at dawn.
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
      Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
  3. (intransitive) To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
    He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
  4. (intransitive) To be brought to the ground.
  5. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
    Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
  6. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle.
    This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
  7. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.
    And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
  8. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).
    The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
  9. (intransitive, followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively (see Usage notes below).
    Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
  10. (copulative) To become.
    She has fallen ill.

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Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from the verb to fall

Related terms [edit]

Terms related to the verb to fall

Translations [edit]

move to a lower position under the effect of gravity
come down or descend
prostrate oneself
be brought to earth or be overthrown
collapse; be overthrown or defeated
die
be allotted to
become or change into
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Noun [edit]

fall (plural falls)

  1. The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.
  2. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
  3. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere, from the falling of leaves during this season) autumn.
  4. A loss of greatness or status.
    the fall of Rome
  5. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
  6. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction
  7. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
  8. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
    He set up his rival to take the fall.
  9. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
  10. See falls
  11. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

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Antonyms [edit]

  • (act of moving under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point): ascent, rise
  • (reduction): increase, rise
  • (loss of greatness or status): ascent, rise

Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from the noun fall

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Terms related to the noun fall

Translations [edit]

act of moving in gas or vacuum under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point
season — see autumn
loss of greatness or status
cricket: the act of a batsman being out
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Albanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Arabic

Noun [edit]

fall

  1. prophecy

Breton [edit]

Adjective [edit]

fall

  1. bad

Faroese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

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Noun [edit]

fall n (genitive singular fals, plural føll)

  1. fall, drop
  2. case (linguistics)

Declension [edit]

n10 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fall fallið føll føllini
Accusative fall fallið føll føllini
Dative falli fallinum føllum føllunum
Genitive fals falsins falla fallanna

German [edit]

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Verb [edit]

fall

  1. Imperative singular of fallen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of fallen.

Icelandic [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

fall n (genitive singular falls, plural föll)

  1. fall, drop
  2. (grammar) case
  3. (computing, programming) function; (subprogram, usually with formal parameters, returing a data value when called)
  4. indefinite accusative singular of fall

Declension [edit]

declension of fall
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fall fallið föll föllin
accusative fall fallið föll föllin
dative falli fallinu föllum föllunum
genitive falls fallsins falla fallanna

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Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

fall n

  1. a fall (the act of falling)
  2. a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, a bankruptcy
  3. a slope, a waterfall, the height of a slope or waterfall
    fallet är omgivet av skog
    the fall is surrounded by forest
    fallet är sjutton meter
    the water falls seventeen metres; the decline is seventeen metres
  4. a (legal) case
    i alla fall
    anyhow (in all cases)
    i annat fall
    otherwise (in another case)
    i så fall
    if so (in such a case)
    i vilket fall som helst
    in any case
    i vart fall
    in any case

Declension [edit]

Declension of fall
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fall fallet fall fallen
genitive falls fallets falls fallens

Related terms [edit]

Verb [edit]

fall

  1. imperative of falla.

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