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Definition: Fallen |
FallenAdjective1. Having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk". 2. Having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building". 3. Having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman". 4. Killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fallen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Original sin in the Old Testament
Many Christian theologians regard the Garden of Eden story in Genesis as describing the first sin, and the consequent "ruin" or, the "Fall" of man. The doctrine of original sin attempts to explain how that sin affects humanity today.
Adam and Eve disobeyed the command of God, "Of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." (Genesis 2:17). Eve was tempted by a serpent to eat the fruit of the tree ("you will not die, you will be just like God"). After she did, she convinced Adam to eat of it as well. Adam and Eve then made aprons of fig leaves to cover their lower parts. In some traditions, the covering of the lower parts means they became aware of their nudity for the first time, and hid from each other in shame. After this God expelled them from the Garden of Eden.
According to many Jewish and Christian interpretations of this story, the consequence of this action was to both make man mortal, and also aware of the consequences of his/her actions (i.e. humanity gained free will). Other interpretations exist as well. In the Unification Church, the original sin was an act of adultery. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, this was an exercise of a free will that already existed, which also made man mortal. In Calvinism, Man has freely chosen his own ruin, by neglecting the gifts he was given by means of which he would have remained in close communion with God (which is life), by failing to trust in the faithfulness of God, and exchanged all that belonged to him and his posterity for an equality with God that can never be his.
Some Christian interpretors include the judgments of God in Genesis 3, in their explanation of the hopelessness into which creation had been brought through Adam's disobedience. Others view these judgments as the beginning of the history of the redemption from sin. It is of particular concern to these latter interpreters to emphasize that the serpent is cursed, as is the ground on account of man, but the woman and the man are given promises and blessings which however mixed with mystery and misery because of sin, and however limited by the tyranny of death, are the basis of hope and of justice in the earth.
As soon as one starts living, he/she also starts dying. The concept of Original Sin stipulates that Human Life is essentially self-destructive due to the sin it inherits from the first couple. It is because of this sin that Life also embodies Death and Eternal Life is impossible until Life grows out of the sin it embodies.
Original sin in The New Testament
The concept of original sin underwent development by Paul, in Romans and First Corinthians, in the New Testament. Paul placed special emphasis on this by stressing that belief in Jesus would allow Christians to overcome death, by earning salvation in the hereafter. The New Testament teaches that rejection of Jesus as the path to salvation must be viewed as willful disobedience, and a rebellion against God. This choice then compels a just God to enforce that person's separation from Him, causing such a person to be sentenced to Hell. Only belief in Jesus, as a savior and son of God, could rescue a person from this fate.
Although the character Satan does not appear as such in the Biblical text, by the time that the New Testament was canonized, the serpent mentioned in Genesis became identified with Satan; this identification is so strong that many believers interpret the Biblical story as Eve being tempted by Satan.
Augustine's modern Western formulation of original sin
Under Augustine of Hippo the common and modern-day Western understanding of Original sin was formulated; he taught that the taint of Adam's original sin was inherited by all people at birth, and that nothing a person does in their life can get rid of this taint. This doctrine took on special prominence in Catholic Christianity and in many Protestant Christian denominations.
In most branches of Christianity, the doctrine of Original sin states that all humans have inherited the guilt of sin from Adam and Eve; this state of sin exists in all people from the moment of their conception. According to this doctrine, all people are born sinners and die sinners; all people are 'lost' eternally, and are in need of Divine salvation. The only way people can be justified in God's eyes and reconciled with God is by humbly asking for forgiveness, believing that His son Jesus Christ, through his death and crucifixion, took on himself the due punishment for our sins and trespasses (atonement), and depending upon God's grace to perfect their faith in God by increasing their love for God, which fulfills obedience. The ultimate punishment for the original sin was expulsion from the presence of God and subjection to physical and spiritual death; the ultimate goal and blessing of reconciliation is the restoration of the original relationship man had with God; this includes eternal life. This idea of inherited guilt is not always followed with literal strictness. Various traditions in the West diverge from one another in terms of what, exactly, is meant by inherited guilt. Most agree that mankind after the fall has inherited the circumstances of ruin, misery, futility, and inability to repair his condition; but they may disagree concerning the sense, or the extent to which man's nature itself is "ruined". Some hold to a doctrine called total depravity; others are repulsed by this term and the doctrine associated with it. The debate also raises the question of whether Jesus Himself had Original Sin. Some theologists hold that Original Sin is passed to offspring through the father, making the son of God the Father free of Original Sin. Roman Catholic dogma says that Mary was conceived innocent of original sin; that is the Catholic dogma of immaculate conception, a term often misunderstood as referring to virgin birth.
Christians have different views on the way to receive salvation from original sin. On one end of the spectrum are those such as Calvinistss who believe that each particular person who puts faith in Christ is predestined from the foundation of the world to live in the light of God's love, but those who do not trust in Christ will remain in darkness and the guilt of sin. On the other end are those such as universalistss that believe that every person ever born will ultimately be justified, restored and saved. Between those two poles are those that emphasize man's ability to choose life with God or separation from God; people remain dependent on God's grace and mercy, but also have a part to play in achieving their own salvation.
Original Sin as understood by Orthodox Christianity
Augustine wrote in Latin in the fourth century, but his writings were not translated into Greek until the fourteenth century. Consequently, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity never held that guilt is inherited, and began repudiating this idea once they learned of it. They teach that we inherit a corrupted or damaged human nature in which the tendency to do bad is greater, but that each person is only guilty of their own sins. By participating in the life of the church, each person's human nature is healed and it becomes easier to do good; at the same time, the Christian becomes more acutely aware of his or her shortcomings. Eastern Orthodox theologians believe that Adam and Eve began to choose separation from God when they chose independence and took fruit for themselves, rather than allow God to continue to feed them and remain dependent on Him. The expulsion from the Garden was not a legal consequence, but to prevent them from eating of the Tree of Life and immortalizing their sin. As Christians partake of the Eucharist and eat and drink the Body and Blood of Christ, they return to dependence on God and experience a gradual healing of the relationship between God and humanity. The ultimate goal is theosis (or, divinization), an even closer union with God and closer likeness to God than existed in the Garden of Eden.
Original Sin as understood by the Unification Church
Genesis 2:17 is a key Bible verse for discussions about the fall of man.
Even though Adam and Eve are described as eating the fruit, they did not "die" immediately (in the physical sense). According to the Unification Church interpretation, they "died" in a spiritual sense: their relationship with God was cut off.
- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (KJV)
According to Unification Theology, Adam and Eve sinned by having a sexual relationship before they had reached perfection. The "fruit of knowledge" was a symbol of Eve's sexual love, which could be either good (if centered on God) or evil (if not). Eve was initially tempted into sin by the Archangel Lucifer, who seduced her. The reason Adam and Eve hid their "lower parts" after the Original Sin is similar to the reason a child having swiped cookies might hide their hands ("I have concealed by transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom." -- Job 31:33)
See also:
- Pandora's box
- Total depravity
- Fall of man (Unification Church)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Original sin."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal. |
Dejection | Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn. |
Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. | |
Hell | Noun: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol. |
Satan | Fallen angels, unclean spirits, devils; the rulers, the powers of darkness; inhabitants of Pandemonium; demon. |
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Screenplays | One by one they've fallen into darkness (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I've fallen for you like a blind roofer (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) My auxiliary tool kit, I forgot all about it. It must have fallen out of my pocket (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) How could I have ever fallen in love with a man like you (Top Hat; writing credit: Allan Scott; Dwight Taylor) | |
Lyrics | There are many who have fallen, there are some who still survive (All About Soul; performing artist: Billy Joel) Night has fallen i'm lying awake, (STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) It must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat (ON THE RADIO; performing artist: Donna Summer) And now it seems I've fallen, fallen for her. (Invisible Touch; performing artist: Genesis) When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead ("White Rabbit"; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) | |
Clever | Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Slightly Fallen Angel (1959) Fallen Angel (1945) Som fallen från skyarna (1943) The Fallen Sparrow (1943) Fallen Arches (1933) | |
Song Titles | After The Rain Has Fallen (performing artist: Sting) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The scabs will eventually fall off leaving marks on the skin that will become pitted scars. The patient is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off. Credit: CDC. |  | The smallpox lesions, or pustules, will eventually form scabs that will fall off leaving marks on the skin. The patient is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off. Credit: CDC. |
 | Trees have fallen into the marsh - victims of erosion. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea relatively low in nutrients and fishery productivity. It has become increasingly polluted owing to runoff by nutrients from waste disposal and agriculture. Catch of key species such as Black Sea anchovy has fallen, relecting environmental degradation. High exploitation levels have also depleted important stocks such as blue fin tuna and swordfish. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Members of the 86th Airlift Wing Honor Guard carry the remains of fallen sailors from the USS Cole out of a C-17 Globemaster III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct.13. The Navy destroyer was in the port of Aden, Yemen, when the incident occurred. (Photo b. |  | A dead, fallen tree slowly dies up in the Parshant National Monument area. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
 | Old dead juniper fallen into the John Day River. Credit: John Craig. |  | "SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they silently await the helicopter which will evacuate their comrade from the jungle covered hills in Long Khanh Province." By Pfc. L. Paul Epley, 1966. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. |
 | Now, a fallen angel, he travelled this path again. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men brandishing sticks over fallen man and confronting man by stairs with pistol. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fallen Leaf" by Jacqueline Abernethy Commentary: "This is simply a leaf that feel off my tree at the beginning of fall." | "Fallen leaves" by Thorarinn Stefansson Commentary: "Atumn leaves on the ground." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abd-el-raham | I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. |
Alphonse De Lamartine | Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. |
Austin O'malley | Avarice is wider than injustice, and all fallen nations lost liberty through avarice which engendered injustice. |
James Russell Lowell | They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. |
Lacordaire | The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. |
Massey | A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. |
Thomas Carlyle | By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | A freeman shall not be amerced for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the offense; and for a grave offense he shall be amerced in accordance with the gravity of the offense, yet saving always his "contentment"; and a merchant in the same way, saving his "merchandise"; and a villein shall be amerced in the same way, saving his "wainage" if they have fallen into our mercy: and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed except by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had fallen into good hands, known nothing but kindness from the Campbells, and been given an excellent education |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | One of the cases had fallen into the street |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Had she fallen among thieves, it would have kept her safe |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An old man, named Father Fauchelevent, had fallen under his cart, his horse being thrown down |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The priest rose and, turning towards the altar, knelt upon the step before the tabernacle in the fallen gloom |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al stepped over to the fallen deputy |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I now perceived that I had fallen into the sea. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open |
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Health | For this reason, the term "Klinefelter syndrome" has fallen out of favor with medical researchers. (references) | |
Mortality from all other causes of death during infancy has fallen dramatically over the corresponding timespan. (references) | ||
Usually there is no pain, but it is common for the affected area to feel numb or prickly, as if it has fallen asleep. (references) | ||
Business | Since 1997, Ford’s share of the market in Europe has fallen from 11.1 percent to 8.6 percent. (references) | |
Had the $794,000 in purchases by this company not occurred, imports would have fallen sharply. (references) | ||
Over the last ten years, the main toxic emissions from road transport have fallen by 30 percent. (references) | ||
Children | Kyrgyz Republic | Social facilities for persons with mental disabilities were strained severely, because budgets have fallen and workloads remained heavy. (references) |
Chile | During the same period, those having suffered some sort of serious physical violence from their parents had fallen from 34 percent to 25 percent. (references) | |
Congo | Current literacy rates were unknown but were believed to have fallen due to the widespread destruction of schools and displacement of persons by the political instability and physical insecurity during much of the 1990's. Teenage girls sometimes exchanged sex voluntarily or under pressure for better grades. (references) | |
Economic History | Portugal | By the end of 1999,these numbers had fallen to 7.5 and 2.6%, respectively. (references) |
Peru | The poverty rate has fallen slightly over the years but remained at 54% in 2000. (references) | |
New Zealand | Initial data for 2001 suggest investment from the U.S. has fallen off substantially. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | The owner of the hotel allegedly had fallen out with the then-ruling party prior to the demolition. (references) |
Czech Republic | No action was taken against the police officer who was photographed standing over a fallen protestor with a raised club. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | The Constitution grants the indigenous population broad rights, including the protection of their cultural patrimony and the exclusive use of their traditional lands; however, the Government has fallen short of securing these rights for indigenous people in practice. (references) |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | Average processing time has fallen from several days to several hours. (references) |
Paraguay | The GDP per capita ($1,506) has fallen steadily and is lower in real terms than it was 10 years ago. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Criticism of officials was only permitted if it was directed at those who have fallen out of favor with the President. (references) | |
Trade | Peru | By mid-2001 the figure had fallen to about 9% and was expected to continue falling as the economy recovered. (references) |
Brazil | However, the number of such state-level banking institutions has fallen in recent years due to the central government's financial and banking reform efforts. (references) | |
Thailand | The financial crisis that began in mid-1997 severely affected the availability of credit in the country . Initial responses to the crisis included significantly higher interest rates and tight liquidity . Interest rates have since fallen with the return of stability to the financial markets, and banks now have significant liquidity. (references) | |
Travel | Ireland | The Euro has fallen in value against the dollar and sterling since its launch. (references) |
Ecuador | Volcanic ash has fallen on Quito during some of the explosions, causing temporary closings of area schools and the airport. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belarus | The authorities have not released any statistics; however, according to country NGO's, several thousand Belarusian women have fallen victim to trafficking. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day." "Pork?" shrieked the patient -- "pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!" "Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked. "I swear it!" "Good! -- then I will undertake to cure you." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | The drug war has apparently worked to some degree, as both casual use and addiction have fallen in recent years. |
Rush Limbaugh | Fox News has learned that dozens of election-year demonstrations criticizing Republicans and the President for ties to fallen energy giant Enron Corp. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In the course of the attempts which have been made some valuable citizens have fallen victims to their zeal for the public service. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | A second frigate has indeed fallen into the hands of the enemy, but the loss is hidden in the blaze of heroism with which she was defended. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Six months ago, early in this season of change, I stood at the gates of the Gdansk shipyard in Poland at the monument to the fallen workers of Solidarity. |
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| "Fallen" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 89.73% of the time. "Fallen" is used about 3,928 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 89.73% | 3,524 | 2,758 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.27% | 404 | 13,896 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,928 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fallen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fallen | Last name | 400 | 23,067 |
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Expressions using "fallen": crest fallen ♦ fallen angel ♦ fallen arch ♦ fallen arches ♦ fallen astern ♦ fallen on hard times ♦ fallen star ♦ fallen wool ♦ jaw fallen ♦ the fallen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fallen": fallen-tree. | |
Ending with "fallen": chap-fallen, crest-fallen, fresh-fallen, freshly-fallen, Jaw-fallen, look crest-fallen, new-fallen, pre-fallen, since-fallen, trade-fallen. | |
Containing "fallen": new-fallen snow, newly-fallen snow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fallen angel | 834 | angel fallen tattoo | 20 |
fallen | 500 | jimmy fallen | 18 |
evanescence fallen | 152 | battle fallen timber | 17 |
fallen hero | 131 | campground fallen leaf | 16 |
fallen arch | 105 | fallen flag railroad | 16 |
fallen girl | 63 | angel art fallen | 16 |
fallen leaf lake | 61 | fallen timber | 16 |
fallen flag | 48 | fallen girls.com | 15 |
fallen soldier | 47 | fallen haven | 15 |
fallen angel picture | 47 | fallen officer | 15 |
fallen heros | 45 | arch fallen foot | 14 |
fallen bladder | 36 | fallen fire fighter | 14 |
fallen lyrics | 32 | fallen leaf | 14 |
fallen angel pic | 32 | myth the fallen lord | 14 |
angel fallen name | 31 | walter dean myers fallen angel | 13 |
demon fallen | 29 | ds9 fallen | 13 |
fallen freedom hero iraqi operation | 23 | fallen movie | 13 |
fallen angle | 23 | fallen uterus | 12 |
evanescence fallen lyrics | 23 | the fallen and the free | 12 |
i ve fallen and i can t get up | 20 | angel book fallen | 12 |
fallen eagle | 12 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "fallen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të rënët (fit), i rrëzuar përdhe, i rënë (broken, down, peaky), i përmbysur (inverted, upside down), i degraduar (degraded, downgrade). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحل الأخلاق, متهدم (dilapidated, razed, ruined, ruinous, tumbledown), هابط (descendant), ساقط (chap-fallen, incident), طريح الأرض, خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | паднал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 下落 (Drop, Whereabouts). (various references) | |
Czech | pokleslý (dejected), padlý. (various references) | |
Danish | udvaelgelsesmetoden ved overtagelse af et ledigt mandat (replacement procedure for seats which have fallen vacant), skinduld (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool), søblommer (fallen stars), kalkuld (dead wool, fallen wool, painted wool, stripped wool), garveruld (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool), dσduld (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool). (various references) | |
Dutch | stervelingswol (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool), looiwol (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool), huidwol (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool), het voorzien in een opengevallen plaats (replacement procedure for seats which have fallen vacant), het vervullen van een opengevallen plaats (replacement procedure for seats which have fallen vacant), blootwol (dead wool, fallen wool, stripped wool). (various references) | |
Finnish | langennut (due, mature). (various references) | |
French | tombés, tombées, tombé par terre, tombé (fall), effondré, dissolu (fast), déchu, chus, chues, chu, ceux qui sont morts à la guerre, baissé, échoué. (various references) | |
German | gefallen (appeal, benefit, dropped, Favor, favors, favour, fell, killed in action, please, pleasure, relish, suit, to oblige, to please, tumbled, zestfulness), abgestürzt (crashed, precipitated). (various references) | |
Greek | μετοχή του fall, πεσών, πεσόντες, πεσμένοσ, πεσμένος (reduced to). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הרוס (destroyed, ruined), נפול, נדף (scattered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vmilyen állapotba kerül (fell, to fall), süllyed (ebb, fell, sink, to dip, to drop, to fall, to lower, to sink in), lehull (drop off, fell, to drop off, to fall), esik (drop, fall, fell, to come down, to fall, to fall upon, to go flop, to misfire, to plummet, to rain cats and dogs, to sag), elesett (killed in action, killed wounded or missing, prostrate), bûnbeesett. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercebur (entered, plunged). (various references) | |
Italian | decadere (decay, decline, deposed, ebb, expire, fall, rot, slip), caduto (deciduous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 落花枝に帰らず破鏡再び照らさず (there's no use crying over spilled milk, what's done is done), 落葉 (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, shedding), 落葉 (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, shedding leaves), 落石 (fallen rocks, falling rocks), 落ち葉 (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, shedding leaves), 落ち穂 (fallen ears), 脱け毛 (fallen hair, hair left on comb), 行路病者 (person fallen sick by the wayside), 積雪 (fallen snow), 積雪 (fallen snow), 庭の落ち葉を掃く (sweep the fallen leaves in the garden), 抜け毛 (combings, fallen hair), 戦没者 (persons who have fallen in battle), 倒木 (fallen tree). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おちぼ (fallen ears), おちば (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, shedding leaves), ぬけげ (combings, fallen hair, hair left on comb), せきせつ (fallen snow), せんぼつしゃ (persons who have fallen in battle), こうろびょうしゃ (person fallen sick by the wayside), らくせき (buying a geisha her contractual freedom, fallen rocks, falling rocks, lack of registration), らくよう (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, setting sun, shedding leaves), らっかえだにかえらずはきょうふたたびてらさず (there's no use crying over spilled milk, what's done is done), とうぼく (fallen tree). (various references) | |
Korean | 떨어지는. (various references) | |
Manx | tuittit, lhieggit (downed, hewn, thrown, tumbled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allenfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caído (dejected, droopy, prostrate). (various references) | |
Romanian | prãbuşit, participiu trecut de la fall, cãzut (smitten). (various references) | |
Russian | упавший, опавший, павший, павшие, падать (come down, drop, fall, fall down, fell, overturn, plummeted, sag, sagged, sink, subside, tumble). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poginuli (casualty), particip proš. od fall, opao. (various references) | |
Somali | dhacnay. (various references) | |
Spanish | pp de fall, caido, caducar (become senile, deposed, expire, lapse), caído (crestfallen, drooping, droopy, lapsed). (various references) | |
Swedish | fallit, fallen (lost), stupad, störtad, nerfallen, avfallen (thin). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งตกลงมา, ซึ่งตายในสนามรบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yeryüzüne inmiş, kötü yola düşmüş (astray), günahkâr (erring, evil, evil doer, guilty, reprobate, sacrilegious, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly, unrighteous, wicked, wrongdoer), ele geçirilmiş, düşmüş, düşkün (addict, addicted, affected, almsman, decayed, devotee, doting, down at heels, fallen on hard times, fond, given to, jealous, jealous of, keen, keen on, partial, poor, sharp-set), düşük (abortion, falling, hypo-, low, miscarriage, nominal, subdued), şehit düşmüş. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ilmek (be fallen), зapyk (fallen tree, scar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обпалий, полеглий. (various references) | |
Welsh | syrthiedig, ar lawr (aground, on the ground). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Nostocaceae, ruinosa, ruinosis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | nyåñcô, patitem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 8, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oupw gar hn ep oudeni autwn epipeptwkoV monon de bebaptismenoi uphrcon eiV to onoma tou kuriou ihsou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nondum enim in quemquam illorum venerat sed baptizati tantum erant in nomine Domini Iesu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For he cam not yit in to ony of hem, but thei weren baptisid oonli in the name of the Lord Jhesu. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For as yet he was come on none of them: But they were baptised only in the name of Christ Iesu. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | (For as yet he had fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For up to that time he had not come on any of them; only baptism had been given to them in the name of the Lord Jesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 8, Verse 16 |
| Albanian | sepse ende nuk kishte zbritur mbi asnjë prej tyre, por ata vetëm ishin pagëzuar në emër të Zotit Jezus. |
| Cebuano | kay wala pa man kanilay hingkunsaran niini, ug sila igo man lamang nabautismohan sa ngalan sa Ginoong Jesus. |
| Croatian | Jer još ni na koga od njih ne bijaše sišao; bijahu samo kršteni u ime Gospodina Isusa. |
| Danish | thi den var endnu ikke falden på nogen af dem, men de vare blot døbte til den Herres Jesu Navn. |
| Finnish | sillä hän ei ollut vielä tullut yhteenkään heistä, vaan he olivat ainoastaan kastetut Herran Jeesuksen nimeen. |
| French | Car il n`était encore descendu sur aucun d`eux; ils avaient seulement été baptisés au nom du Seigneur Jésus. |
| Hungarian | Mert még senkire azok közül nem szállott rá, csak meg voltak keresztelve az Úr Jézus nevére. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | sebab Roh Allah belum datang menguasai seorang pun dari mereka; mereka baru dibaptis atas nama Tuhan Yesus saja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena Rohulkudus itu belum lagi turun ke atas barang seorang pun daripada mereka itu, melainkan mereka itu hanya baharu dibaptiskan dengan nama Tuhan Yesus sahaja. |
| Maori | Kahore ano hoki ia i tau noa ki tetahi o ratou: he mea iriiri kau i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki, o Ihu. |
| Norwegian | for Ånden var ennu ikke falt på nogen av dem, de var bare døpt til den Herre Jesu navn. |
| Portuguese | Porque sobre nenhum deles havia ele descido ainda; mas somente tinham sido batizados em nome do Senhor Jesus. |
| Rumanian | Cqci nu Se pogorkse kncq peste niciunul din ei, ci fuseserq numai botezayi kn Numele Domnului Isus. |
| Shuar | Tura Samarianmaya Yus-shuarsha aya Uunt Jesusa Náariin imianiarmiayi. Yusa Wakanínkia Tárachmiayi. Tuma asamtai Pítrusha Juanjai nui jeawar Samarianmaya Yus-shuara Enentáin Yusa Wakaní pimiutkarat tusan Yusan áujtusarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Porque aún no había descendido sobre ninguno de ellos el Espíritu Santo; solamente habían sido bautizados en el nombre de Jesús. |
| Swahili | maana wakati huo Roho Mtakatifu hakuwa ameshukia yeyote kati yao; walikuwa wamebatizwa tu kwa jina la Bwana Yesu. |
| Swedish | ty helig ande hade ännu icke fallit på någon av dem, utan de voro allenast döpta i Herren Jesu namn. |
| Uma | Apa' ko'ia-ra nakahompoi Inoha' Tomoroli'. Muntu' raniu' -ra mpokahangai' hanga' Pue' Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fallen": befallen, chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, downfallen, refallen, unfallen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fallen": crestfallenly, crestfallenness, crestfallennesses. (additional references) | |
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"Fallen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alleni, allne, ballen, Ballena, callen, Efailwen, Fablon, falan, Falana, falden, Fale, falen, Faley, falken, Falkenna, falla, fallan, falle, fallec, fallic, fallid, falline, fall'n, falloc, falon, falten, Famlyn, feldene, felen, Fellin, Felsen, fillen, fillin, Fladen, flale, flawen, Foillan, Folten, fullen, mallen, vallen, wallen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fallen" (pronounced fÄ"lun) |
| 4 | -Ä" l u n | pollen, stollen. |
| 3 | -l u n | felon, adrenaline, Alan, Ballon, befallen, Billon, bouillon, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, colon, crestfallen, discipline, elan, gallon, globulin, gremlin, insulin, javelin, kaolin, Kremlin, lanolin, Magdalen, Marlin, masculine, melon, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, pelon, penicillin, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, porcelain, solan, Solon, stolen, sullen, swollen, talon, Tolan, triathlon, vanillin, villain, watermelon, woolen, woollen, Zeppelin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: fella. | |
-2 letters: alef, elan, fall, fane, feal, fell, flan, flea, lane, leaf, leal, lean. | |
-3 letters: ale, all, ane, elf, ell, fan, fen, lea, nae. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, an, ef, el, en, fa, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: flannel. | |
+2 letters: befallen, evenfall, fellahin, flannels, flatline, longleaf, refallen, unfallen. | |
+3 letters: banefully, befalling, evenfalls, fellaheen, fellating, fellation, fellowman, flagellin, flanneled, flannelly, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, flatulent, refalling, unflyable. | |
+4 letters: affluently, chapfallen, chopfallen, downfallen, fallowness, fellations, flagellant, flagellins, flanneling, flannelled, flatlander, flatliners, flatulence, flatulency, floatplane, fontanelle, fraxinella, funereally, infallible, infernally, inflatable, influenzal, langlaufer, lawfulness, leafleting, oldfangled, painfuller. | |
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