Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of slay.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle of slay.
Wiktionary
- v. Past participle of slay
- n. with "the" Those who have been killed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in
- n. people who have been slain (as in battle)
Examples
“The sword of the slain is the sword of the great men that are slain, v. 14.”
“CNN: Source: Safe in slain couple's home contained $100,000”
“At the same time they called the slain soldiers terrorists who are in, quote, eternal hell fire.”
“At the same time they called the slain soldiers terrorists who are in quote, "eternal hell fire".”
“DAMN WHAT A SHAME IT IS SINCE THAT DAY, when the leader of hate to our white house came, when our collective soul was taught to blame, or better up, that to slain is the truest and sweetest game, or how we all now proudly do proclaim … Oh how we love to kill in the name of the great and fearsome U.S.A.”
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
“DAMN WHAT A SHAME IT IS SINCE THAT DAY, when the leader of hate to our white house came, when our collective soul was taught to blame, or better up, that to slain is the truest and sweetest game, or how we all now proudly do proclaim†¦ Oh how we love to kill in the name of the great and fearsome U.S.A.”
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
“Ramaphosa also refloated the call slain communist leader Chris”
“Lamb slain from the foundation of the world -- The Greek order of words favors this translation.”
“Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, "so all atonements ever made were only effectual by His blood" [Bishop Pearson, Exposition of the Creed].”
“By the conduct and courage of Johanan, though the death of the slain is not revenged, yet the prisoners are recovered, and he now becomes their commander-in-chief, ver.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slain’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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Murdered, you say?
Terms of homicide; weapons, poisons, synonyms &c.
slaughtered, goes and gets her..., done in, rubbed out, bumped off, malice aforethought, marble baluster, lead spoon, stone idol, atropine, burned, clipped and 90 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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If it ain't broke
paint, quaint, maintop, saint, faint, dainty, ain't, unacquainted, the rain in Spain..., ruzuzutainment, 1 Mountain Artill..., Ukraine and 81 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Poetrie: Jabberwocky
Thanks to uselessness for the idea of Poetrie.
Be sure to see also the word page Jabberwocky, which contains a spell-checked version of this poem, thanks to His Excellency oroboros. Ri...chortled, callay, callooh, frabjous, beamish, slain, thou, hast, galumphing, snicker-snack, burbled, tulgey and 20 more...
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Prosie: The Crisis
By Thomas Paine. Published on December 23, 1776 (later published as The American Crisis). Posted here as excerpts, not in entirety.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer s...unlamented, wretch, bawdy-houses, ravaged, slain, widow, orphan, terror, fleeing, shrieking, horrid, brutish and 40 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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Anglo-Saxon
...or otherwise early Germanic.
storm, scorn, nincompoop, thrice, clave, clove, slain, onslaught, hew, breadth, hussy, pelt and 57 more...
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WList-2
deft, deign, de jure, slain, succumb, gore, stereotype, moustachio
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