Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FALL

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Definitions of FALL

1. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
2. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
3. A loss of greatness or status.
4. That which falls or cascades.
5. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
6. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
7. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
8. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
9. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
10. (transitive) To move downwards.
11. (intransitive) To change, often negatively.
12. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
13. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
14. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
15. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
16. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
17. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
18. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
19. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
20. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
21. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
22. (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
23. (chiefly, North America, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]
24. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance.
25. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
26. (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
27. (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.
28. (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
29. (theology) The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve. [from 14th c.]
30. A surname.
31. (intransitive, slang, AAVE) To visit; to go to a place.
32. The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.

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Examples of Using FALL in a Sentence

• Following the fall, sack, and occupation of the city, Alexios V was blinded by his father-in-law, the ex-emperor Alexios III, and later executed by the new Latin regime.
• It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almohads in 1147.
• 86 gave reign lengths for Gyges's successors, but there is uncertainty about these as the total exceeds the timespan between 652 (probable death of Gyges, fighting the Cimmerians) and 547/546 (fall of Sardis to Cyrus the Great).
• Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no turbulence.
• When a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, an electron from a higher energy level may fall into the vacancy, resulting in a release of energy.
• The wars of the Diadochi witnessed the fall of the Argead dynasty in Macedon resulting in a power vacuum, which the Antigonid and Antipatrid dynasties sought to occupy.
• Bayezid evacuated Sephardi Jews from Spain following the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada and the proclamation of the Alhambra Decree and resettled them throughout Ottoman lands, especially in Salonica.
• The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh; he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion (a "judge"; see shophet); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated.
• Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh (the God of Israel), metaphorically comparing Israel's abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful to her husband.
• He united most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier.
• The collapse of communism set in motion events that led to the withdrawal of the Vietnamese armed forces, which had established their presence in the country since the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
• Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again starting in the late 1990s when they have since entered bilateral co-operation with several South American countries, most notably Venezuela and Bolivia beginning in the late 1990s, especially after the Venezuela election of Hugo Chávez in 1999, who became a staunch ally of Castro's Cuba.
• Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), the Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
• Since World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany, only the third stanza has been used as the national anthem.
• Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France.
• Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms.
• The other UK territories in the South Atlantic, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, fall under the protection of British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI), formerly known as British Forces Falkland Islands (BFFI), which includes commitments from the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
• The foreign relations of Afghanistan are in a transitional phase since the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the collapse of the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
• Through an error, King Geirröth tortured Odin-as-Grímnir, a fatal mistake, since Odin caused him to fall upon his own sword.
• The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.

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