fall
- noun
- /fɔl/
- US
- I love watching the leaves change color during fall.
- last fall
- the fall semester
- early fall
So I'm about to order some Starbucks fall drinks to try.
- So I'm about to order some Starbucks fall drinks to try.
- And she just kicked off her fall semester at Harvard.
- She was born on a bright fall afternoon.
- It's like a little step into the fall forest of mine.
- Because in a lot of cases, late fall stuff ripens slower.
- and, you know, every fall the leaves turn red.
- That'd be so perfect for fall and perfect for me.
- Can I speak English New N for fall clothing?
- So winter, spring, summer, fall, snow, mud.
- My few fall in my first fall starts in in learning.
- I'm hoping to put it online this fall completely.
- That's going to be lovely for fall love love.
- I think by mid fall we were in full blown.
Examples
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So we decided, come the fall, we're moving to Florida.
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She was born on a bright fall afternoon.
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It's like a little step into the fall forest of mine.
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I understand that center schools will have training this fall on Common Core State Standards.
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-Tom and I are getting married in the fall.
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In the fall when the crops are in.
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It was early fall when I left the States.
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A high school band director sends the fall marching band competition schedule to all students' homes.
Academic text (2011) -
Data collection began in the fall of the juniors' first year of teacher education.
Academic text (2012) -
Additionally, students had to be enrolled in college during the fall semester following high school graduation.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
The season between summer and winter when leaves fall and weather cools
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To accept what happens and not try to change the result
- Informal
To fail completely and feel embarrassed in front of others
Children often look and behave like their parents
- Informal
To react strongly because something is very funny or surprising
- Vulgar
To lose your balance and land on your backside in an awkward or embarrassing way
- Informal
Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built
- Formal
To die as a Christian who trusts in God and expects life after death
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
Compounds
- Literature
An event in the Bible when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, lost their innocence, and left the Garden
- Specialized
A green or brown caterpillar with white stripes that eats tree leaves in autumn
A small European plant with yellow flowers that blooms in the fall and is now common in North America
- US
The time when day and night are almost the same length, marking the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere
- Literature
A Christian belief that people lose their innocence when they disobey God
- Specialized
A caterpillar that lives in large silk nests on tree branches and eats the leaves in late summer and fall
A bush that loses its leaves and has large cone-shaped flowers in fall
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fall for the season comes from the phrase 'fall of the leaf' because leaves fall from the trees at that time of year. So fall means the autumn when leaves drop.