What part of speech is fall?

Fall can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. fall is a verb, present, 1st person singular of fall (infinitive).
  • 2. fall is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. fall is a noun, singular of falls.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does fall mean?

Definitions

Verb
fall - pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
fall - descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"
fall - yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"
fall - lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"
fall - lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"
fall - lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"
fall - be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"
fall - fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
fall - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
fall - drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"
fall - suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"
fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"
fall - assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"
fall - be cast down; "his eyes fell"
fall - slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"
fall - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
fall - be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"
fall - to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student"
fall - occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"
fall - go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"
fall - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"
fall - move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"
fall - to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"
fall - come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"
fall - be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"
fall - begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"
fall - come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"
fall - decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
fall - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
fall - fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
fall - come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"
fall - fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

Noun
fall - a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
fall - the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"
fall - a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"
fall - a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"
fall - when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
Fall - the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"
fall - a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"
fall - a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
fall - a downward slope or bend
fall - the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
fall - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
fall - a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
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Examples of fall

#   Sentence  
1. noun The fall of the House of Hapsburg.
2. noun In the fall of 1973.
3. noun A fall from virtue.
4. noun The rise and fall of the tides.
5. noun Women have been blamed ever since the Fall.
6. noun They finished before the fall of night.
7. noun When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall.
8. noun This was the body that Bush proclaimed was bringing "stability" to the region in fall of 1999.
9. noun Balance died in 2004 after a 'fall.'
10. noun Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings served as a threat and warning.
11. noun In Fall 2004, MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reports that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had Ames that was a match from 16 to 4 but cannot rule out that it was made overseas.
12. noun In his Fall 2001 book titled Knights under the Banner of the Prophet, Zawahiri argued that the secular press was telling "lies" about the militant islamists -- to include the suggestion that the militant islamists were somehow the creation of the United States in connection with expelling the Russians from Afghanistan.
13. noun I plan on taking two or three graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions committee that I can compete at the graduate level.
14. noun I plan on taking two or three graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions office that I can compete at this level.
15. noun I plan on taking a couple of graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions office that I can compete at this level.
16. verb Fall into a trap.
17. verb Fall in love.
18. verb Fall asleep.
19. verb Fall prey to an imposter.
20. verb Fall into a strange way of thinking.
21. verb We must stand or fall.
22. verb Fall by the wayside.
23. verb The hills around here fall towards the ocean.
24. verb Payments fall on the 1st of the month.
25. verb The line of men fall forward.
26. verb Fall into a category.
27. verb Before you fall for Dems’ spin, here are the facts.
28. verb A NATO spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands.
29. verb We had a pretty good idea when we signed the contract that ECS would not be able to complete that by the contract start date, so we negotiated a fall back plan under which ECS is obligated to "assist [Transwestern] in developing a manual system to accomplish the same result and will hold harmless and keep [Transwestern] whole for all cost and expenses" associated with the manual system.
30. verb "The hardest blow on Americans," concluded Roberts, "will fall when China does revalue its currency.
Sentence  
noun
The fall of the House of Hapsburg.
In the fall of 1973.
A fall from virtue.
The rise and fall of the tides.
Women have been blamed ever since the Fall.
They finished before the fall of night.
When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall.
This was the body that Bush proclaimed was bringing "stability" to the region in fall of 1999.
Balance died in 2004 after a 'fall.'
Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings served as a threat and warning.
In Fall 2004, MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reports that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had Ames that was a match from 16 to 4 but cannot rule out that it was made overseas.
In his Fall 2001 book titled Knights under the Banner of the Prophet, Zawahiri argued that the secular press was telling "lies" about the militant islamists -- to include the suggestion that the militant islamists were somehow the creation of the United States in connection with expelling the Russians from Afghanistan.
I plan on taking two or three graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions committee that I can compete at the graduate level.
I plan on taking two or three graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions office that I can compete at this level.
I plan on taking a couple of graduate level finance courses at the University of Houston this Summer and Fall to demonstrate to the Admissions office that I can compete at this level.
verb
Fall into a trap.
Fall in love.
Fall asleep.
Fall prey to an imposter.
Fall into a strange way of thinking.
We must stand or fall.
Fall by the wayside.
The hills around here fall towards the ocean.
Payments fall on the 1st of the month.
The line of men fall forward.
Fall into a category.
Before you fall for Dems’ spin, here are the facts.
A NATO spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands.
We had a pretty good idea when we signed the contract that ECS would not be able to complete that by the contract start date, so we negotiated a fall back plan under which ECS is obligated to "assist [Transwestern] in developing a manual system to accomplish the same result and will hold harmless and keep [Transwestern] whole for all cost and expenses" associated with the manual system.
"The hardest blow on Americans," concluded Roberts, "will fall when China does revalue its currency.
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