falls

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noun

A waterfall.

“Niagara Falls”

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waterfall
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Meanings

falls1

nounfalls (plural falls)
  1. A waterfall.

    Niagara Falls

    1 more example

    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
noun
  1. pluralplural of fall
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of fall

Falls2

proper noun
  1. A surname.
  2. A placename
    1. An unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States.
    2. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
    3. slangA short name for the local waterfall
    4. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Niagara Falls.
proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Fall

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna steep descent of the water of a river

Similar
waterfall
Broader
body of waterwater
Also see
waterfall

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian водопад
  • водопад (vodopad)waterfall
Danish vandfald
  • vandfaldwaterfall
Finnish vesiputous
  • vesiputouswaterfall
German Wasserfall, -fälle
  • Wasserfallwaterfall
  • -fällewaterfall
Hungarian vízesés
  • vízeséswaterfall
Polish wodospad
  • wodospadwaterfall
Russian водопа́д
  • водопа́д (vodopád)waterfall
Scottish Gaelic eas
  • easwaterfall
Tagalog talon
  • talonwaterfall
Turkish şelale, çavlan
  • şelalewaterfall
  • çavlanwaterfall
  • kaskatwaterfall
  • çağlayanwaterfall

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with falls

wallsstallssmallsallsBishop's FallsChurchill FallsGrand FallsSt. Pauls
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Cite this entry
APA

falls. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falls

MLA

“falls.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falls. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “falls,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falls.

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