slain

1. 1.

   people who have been slain (as in battle)

   Broaderdead

1. 1.

   killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"

   “a picture of St. George and the slain dragon”

   Similardead

Other forms of slain

plural

slains·

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.

Questions about slain

What does slain mean?

slain means "people who have been slain (as in battle)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slain?

slain has 1 syllable: slain. In IPA it is /ˈsleɪn/.

Is slain a common word?

slain is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.