Dictionary Entry
Having dropped or descended from a higher place; overthrown or defeated.
In a Sentence
“The ancient statue had fallen from its pedestal, its pieces scattered across the museum floor.”
Origin
From Old English 'feallan', meaning to fall.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “fallen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;
Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high,
In glittering dust and painted fragments lie!
Read full poem →Clothing the stem, which else had
fallen quite
With cluster’d flower-bells and am-
Read full poem →Made mine own bitter where they ran between
As blood had fallen therein,
She saying; Arise, lift up thine eyes and see
Read full poem →As a flower, as an hour in a day,
Fallen from laughter to moan.
But my spirit is shaken with fear
Read full poem →Three times thrice the world has fallen on slumber,
Shone and waned and withered in a trice,
Read full poem →Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Though before thee the throned Cytherean be fallen, and hidden her
head,
Read full poem →Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Though before thee the throned Cytherean be fallen, and hidden her head,
Yet thy kingdom shall pass, Galilean, thy dead shall go down to thee dead.
Read full poem →Am I the ghost, who knows?
My hand, a fallen rose,
Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.