SLAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slain mean? 

• SLAIN (noun)
  The noun SLAIN has 1 sense:

1. people who have been slain (as in battle)

  Familiarity information: SLAIN used as a noun is very rare.

• SLAIN (adjective)
  The adjective SLAIN has 1 sense:

1. killed; 'slain' is formal or literary as in

  Familiarity information: SLAIN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who have been slain (as in battle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("slain" is a kind of...):

dead (people who are no longer living)

• SLAIN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Killed; 'slain' is formal or literary as in

Context example:

a picture of St. George and the slain dragon

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

 Context examples 

“A moment later and they would have slain me.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had already slain two of the honest people; after Tom and Alan, might not I come next?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And he thought of Oona, and of her words: "And when the fighting begins, it is for thee, Negore, to crawl secretly away so that thou be not slain."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Also, he held White Fang's nose down to the slain hens, and at the same time cuffed him soundly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With yells of triumph the Indians came flocking down from their caves and danced a frenzied dance of victory round the dead bodies, in mad joy that two more of the most dangerous of all their enemies had been slain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The day had been dull and overcast, but the sun now burst through the clouds, a welcome omen, and shone upon the curving beach where together we had dared the lords of the harem and slain the holluschickie.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He has been slain—and slain, I fear, amidst crime and violence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when the fighting begins, it is for thee, Negore, to crawl secretly away so that thou be not slain.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was armed with the weapons of the slain guards—a live arsenal that fled through the hills pursued by the organised might of society.

(White Fang, by Jack London)