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Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.\nSense of \"autumn\" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.", "Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation of whale." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.", "submean": [ "To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.\nThrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.\n", "To come down, to drop or descend.\nThe rain fell at dawn.\n", "To come as if by dropping down.\n", "To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.\nHe fell to the floor and begged for mercy.", "To be brought to the ground." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To move downwards.", "submean": [ "(obsolete) To let fall; to drop.\n", "(obsolete) To sink; to depress.\nto fall the voice", "(UK, US, dialect, archaic) To fell; to cut down.\nto fall a tree" ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To change, often negatively.", "submean": [ "(copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become.\nShe has fallen ill.\nThe children fell asleep in the back of the car.\nWhen did you first fall in love?\nfall silent, fall sick, fall pregnant, fall victim to something\n", "(intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.\nRome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.", "(intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.\nThis is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.", "(intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).\nThe candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.\n" ] }, { "mean": "To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.\nThanksgiving always falls on a Thursday.  Last year, Commencement fell on June 3." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.\nAnd so it falls to me to make this important decision.  The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.\nto fall lambs" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.\nto fall into error;  to fall into difficulties" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon)." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.\nAfter arguing, they fell to blows." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.\nAn unguarded expression fell from his lips." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).\nAn Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity." }, { "mean": "A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc." }, { "mean": "(chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; 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