Word.ws English Dictionary

fallen in love

fallen in love is the past participle of fall in love.

Meaning of fall in love

Verb

fall in love (third-person singular simple present falls in love, present participle falling in love, simple past fell in love, past participle fallen in love)

  1. (intransitive, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.
    • I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.
  2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other.
    • They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.
  3. (intransitive, inanimate object following "with") To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing.
    • I have just fallen in love with Rome!

Questions about fallen in love

What is fallen in love the past participle of?
Fallen in love is the past participle of fall in love.

Words near fallen in love in the dictionary

  1. fallen foul
  2. fallen from grace
  3. fallen ill
  4. fallen in
  5. fallen in line
  6. fallen in love
  7. fallen in lust
  8. fallen in with
  9. fallen into
  10. fallen into a trap
  11. fallen into one's lap

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fallen in love (page history and authors); fall in love (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fallen in love.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fallen_in_love. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.