fall
n 1: the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: autumn]
2: a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble] 3: the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" 4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: ascent] 5: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue" 6: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: downfall] [ant: rise] 7: a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" [ant: rise] 8: the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, surrender] 9: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle] 10: when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: pin] 11: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop] 1
