verb
- past participle of fall.
adjective
- having dropped or come down from a higher place, from an upright position, or from a higher level, degree, amount, quality, value, number, etc.
- on the ground; prostrate; down flat: Exhausted, the racers lay fallen by the road.
- degraded or immoral.
- (of a woman) having lost her chastity.
- overthrown, destroyed, or conquered: a fallen city.
- dead: fallen troops.
verb
- the past participle of fall
adjective
- having sunk in reputation or honoura fallen woman
- killed in battle with gloryour fallen heroes
- defeated
adj.c.1400, past participle adjective from fall (v.). Used figuratively for “morally ruined” by 1620s. Meaning “those who have died” attested by 1765. Fallen angel is from 1680s; fallen woman by 1820.