Difference between Fall and Autumn

What is the difference between Fall and Autumn?

Fall as a noun is the act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position. while Autumn as a noun is traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from september 21 to december 20 in parts of the northern hemisphere, and the months of march, april and may in the southern hemisphere.

Fall

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. Autumn. A loss of greatness or status. The action of a batsman being out. A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction Blame; punishment See falls

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. To come down, to drop or descend. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. To be brought to the ground. To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. To die, especially in battle. To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate. To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc). To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows; to become prostrated literally or figuratively . To become. To cause something to descend to the ground; especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down.

Example sentence: The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Autumn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 21 to December 20 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or relating to autumn.

Example sentence: I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known to God, man or beast - and they were all equally detestable. When you pushed them with your fork, a warmish liquid spurted forth. It was rather like sort of bursting a boil.

We hope you now know whether to use Fall or Autumn in your sentence.

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