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Fall

Pronunciation: /fal/

“Fall” is a German word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
  2. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
  3. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
  4. case (actual event, situation, or fact)
  5. case (instance or event as a topic of study)
  6. case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)
  7. case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
  8. case (kind of inflection of a nominal)
  9. halyard

Etymology

From Middle High German val, from Old High German fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall. Cognate with Dutch val, English fall. The sense “case” in all its shapes is a calque of Latin casus.

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