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say it: FAH-luhn
fallen is an adjective meaning "having dropped by the force of gravity". It is pronounced /ˈfɑlən/ — FAH-luhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
having dropped by the force of gravity
“fallen leaves covered the forest floor”
“sat on a fallen tree trunk”
killed in battle
“to honor fallen soldiers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fallen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.