What does slain mean?
Definitions for slain
sleɪnslain
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Princeton's WordNet
slain(adj)
people who have been slain (as in battle)
slain(adj)
killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
"a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
Wiktionary
slain(Noun)
Those who have been killed.
Webster Dictionary
Slain
of Slay
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Slain
slān, pa.p. of slay.
Anagrams for slain »
nails
anils
snail
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slain in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of slain in a Sentence
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.
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.
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.:
O, I am slain!
Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917):
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!
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