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falls

UK/fɔːlz/

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Northumbria/faːlz/

falls noun: a waterfall. Also the plural of fall.

falls: a waterfall
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Noun

falls (plural falls)

  1. A waterfall.
    • Niagara Falls
    • And climbed up through the woods, past the lake island where the white gazebo stood up to its knees in mist, up to where a falls fell melodiously into a deep dark pool.1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Art of Memory”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 475

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Falls

Falls

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
  4. (slang) A short name for the local waterfall
  5. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Niagara Falls.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Falls

Falls

  1. (plural) plural of Fall

Also used as

falls is also the plural of fall.

falls is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall.

falls meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi and Gujarati

falls in Bengali

পড়ে যায়

falls in Kannada

ಬೀಳುತ್ತದೆ

falls in Punjabi

ਡਿੱਗਦਾ ਹੈ

falls in Gujarati

પડી જાય છે, પડે છે
More languagesFewer languages
falls in Odia
ପଡ଼ିଯାଏ
falls in Tagalog
talon

Forms of falls

pluralfalls

Words formed from falls

Phrases with falls

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Words that rhyme with falls

Questions about falls

What does falls mean?
Falls means a waterfall.
What is falls in Bengali?
Falls in Bengali is পড়ে যায়. See Falls meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is falls?
Falls can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce falls?
Falls is pronounced /fɔːlz/ (UK).
What is the plural of falls?
The plural of falls is falls.

Words near falls in the dictionary

  1. fallowness
  2. fallows
  3. Fallowses
  4. fallrate
  5. fallrates
  6. falls
  7. falls about
  8. falls among
  9. falls apart
  10. falls around
  11. falls asleep

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: falls (page history and authors); Falls (page history and authors); falls (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); falls (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); falls (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); falls (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); falls (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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