Definitions for slain
sleɪnslain

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. slain(adj)

   people who have been slain (as in battle)

2. slain(adj)

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

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

Wiktionary(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. slain(Noun)

   Those who have been killed.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Slain

   of Slay

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Slain

   slān, pa.p. of slay.

Anagrams for slain »

1. nails

2. anils

3. snail

How to pronounce slain?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Homer:

   It is not right to glory in the slain.

4. Benjamin Franklin:

   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.

5. 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

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