FALLEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fallen mean? 

• FALLEN (adjective)
  The adjective FALLEN has 4 senses:

1. having dropped by the force of gravity

2. having fallen in or collapsed

3. having lost your chastity

4. killed in battle

  Familiarity information: FALLEN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALLEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having dropped by the force of gravity

Context example:

sat on a fallen tree trunk

Similar:

down (being or moving lower in position or less in some value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having fallen in or collapsed

Context example:

a fallen building

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having lost your chastity

Context example:

a fallen woman

Similar:

unchaste (not chaste)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Killed in battle

Context example:

to honor fallen soldiers

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

 Context examples 

My golden ball has fallen into the spring.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You find me, fallen back, FOR a spring; and I have every reason to believe that a vigorous leap will shortly be the result.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Beauty Smith decided that the snow was the safest place for him, and lay where he had fallen, making no effort to get up.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

When he came I was fast asleep, my clothes fallen off on one side, and my shirt above my waist.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His companions came up to assist him, and by the light of their lantern they found that he had fallen on the body of a man, who was to all appearance dead.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She leaned heavily against me, and I do believe that she had fallen asleep again between the arm-chair and the state-room.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Before I could do much to help him he had fallen back again to his former place, where he lay for a while silent.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"You're the crossest person in it!" returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite, NASA)