fall under

1. 1.

   be included in or classified as

   “This falls under the rubric `various'”

   Synonymsfall into

   Broaderconstitute

Questions about fall under

What does fall under mean?

fall under means "be included in or classified as".

What is another word for fall under?

Close synonyms include fall into. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fall under a common word?

fall under is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.