Definitions for Slain
sleɪnslain

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. slainadjective

   people who have been slain (as in battle)

2. slainadjective

   killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"

   "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. slainnoun

   Those who have been killed.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slain

   The participle passive of slay.

   The slain of the Lord shall be many. Is. lxvi. 16.

   The king grew vain,
   Fought all his battles o’er again;
   And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. Dryden.

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1. slain

   Slain! is a platform game developed by Wolf Brew Games and published by Digerati Distribution. The game shares similarities in tone and design to the Castlevania series, with elements of medieval Gothic architecture and heavy metal. The game was received negatively at launch and was overhauled and relaunched as Slain: Back from Hell. The updated version received higher review scores.

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1. slain

   Slain is the past participle of slay, which means killed or murdered in a violent or brutal manner. Often used in historical, literary, or religious contexts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Slain

   of Slay

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slain

   slān, pa.p. of slay.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLAIN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Slain is ranked #107134 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Slain surname appeared 166 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Slain.
   
   94.5% or 157 total occurrences were White.
   4.2% or 7 total occurrences were Black.

Anagrams for Slain »

1. nails

2. snail

3. anils

4. sinal

How to pronounce Slain?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Slain in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Slain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Slain in a Sentence

1. Homer:

   Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

2. Homer:

   It is not right to glory in the slain.

3. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:

   So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.

4. Rudyard Kipling:

   Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again

5. Abdur Rashid:

   My elder brother said he had seen militants shifting bodies of the slain fighters to upper Tirah from Sandasa and nearby villages, local militants of Lashkar-e-Islam told them 20 people were killed.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Slain
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Slain
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Slain
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slain
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Slain
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Slain
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html