fall

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Antonyms 1.3.4 Derived terms 1.3.5 Related terms 1.3.6 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Derived terms 1.4.4 Related terms 1.4.5 Translations 1.5 See also 2 Albanian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Breton 3.1 Adjective 4 Faroese 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Declension 5 Icelandic 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Declension 5.3.2 Derived terms 5.3.3 See also 6 Swedish 6.1 Noun

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Old English feallan

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• (UK) enPR: fôl, IPA: /fɔːl/, SAMPA: /fO:l/
• (US) enPR: fäl, IPA: /fɑl/, SAMPA: /fAl/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɔːl

[edit] Verb

to 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)

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.

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, literary) 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) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows; 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.

11. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (transitive, archaic) To cause something to descend to the ground; especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down.

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• The sense "to become" is now only used in certain set phrases and expressions; see Derived terms below.

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• (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity): drop, plummet, plunge
• (come down): come down, descend, drop
• (come to the ground deliberately): drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
• (be brought to the ground):
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
• (die): die
• (be allotted to): be the responsibility of, be up to
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): dip, drop
• (become): become, get
• (cause (something) to descend to the ground): cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

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• (come down): ascend, go up, rise
• (come to the ground deliberately): get up, pick oneself up, stand up
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): rise

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[edit] Noun

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 American, 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. (slang, US) Blame; punishment

   He set up his rival to take the fall.

8. See falls

[edit] Synonyms

• (act of moving under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point): descent, drop
• (reduction): decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
• (season): autumn
• (loss of greatness or status): downfall
• (blame; punishment): rap

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• (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

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• falls
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[edit] Albanian

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From Arabic

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fall

1. prophecy

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fall

1. bad

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• IPA: [fadl]

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fall n.

1. fall, drop
2. case (linguistics)

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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

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[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fatl/

  Rhymes: -atl

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fall n.

1. fall, drop
2. (grammar) case

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• áhrifsfall
• ávarpsfall
• deildarfall
• eignarfall
• fjarverufall
• íferðarfall
• íverufall
• nefnifall
• nærverufall
• samvistarfall
• staðarfall
• sviftifall
• tilgangsfall
• tækisfall
• úrferðarfall
• verufall
• þágufall
• þolfall

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• falla v

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

fall n (plural fall, definite singular fallet, definite plural fallen)

1. fall (the act of falling)
2. case (in the legal sense)