What does slain mean?
Definitions for slain
sleɪnslain
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Princeton's WordNet
slainadjective
people who have been slain (as in battle)
slainadjective
killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
"a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
Wiktionary
slainnoun
Those who have been killed.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
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
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
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!
This incident stemmed from a dispute within that party, this party was given in the memory of a subject that was slain in April. We're still developing details as far as that goes.
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.
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