FALLING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does falling out mean? 

• FALLING OUT (noun)
  The noun FALLING OUT has 1 sense:

1. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

  Familiarity information: FALLING OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALLING OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

breach; break; falling out; rift; rupture; severance

Context example:

they hoped to avoid a break in relations

Hypernyms ("falling out" is a kind of...):

breakup; detachment; separation (coming apart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falling out"):

schism (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)

 Context examples 

And I suppose he might have broke his neck by falling out of bed, if he got in an awkward kink.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“In the act, my dear Annie,” repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreading the newspaper on her lap like a table-cloth, and patting her hands upon it, “of making his last Will and Testament. The foresight and affection of the dear! I must tell you how it was. I really must, in justice to the darling—for he is nothing less!—tell you how it was. Perhaps you know, Miss Trotwood, that there is never a candle lighted in this house, until one's eyes are literally falling out of one's head with being stretched to read the paper. And that there is not a chair in this house, in which a paper can be what I call, read, except one in the Study. This took me to the Study, where I saw a light. I opened the door. In company with the dear Doctor were two professional people, evidently connected with the law, and they were all three standing at the table: the darling Doctor pen in hand. “This simply expresses then,” said the Doctor—Annie, my love, attend to the very words—“this simply expresses then, gentlemen, the confidence I have in Mrs. Strong, and gives her all unconditionally?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)