slain

• enPR: slān
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /sleɪ̯n/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /slæɪ̯n/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /slen/
• (India) IPA^(key): (pane–pain merger) /sleːn/; (without the pane–pain merger) /slɛjn/, /sleː(j)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Hyphenation: slain

slain

1. past participle of slay
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the slain pl (plural only)

1. Those who have been killed.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIII, page 36:

     […] Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man ¶ May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, ¶ Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; ¶ Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, ¶ A bony heap, through ages to remain, ¶ Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast ¶ Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.

   • 1906, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The Ethics of [Richard] Wagner's “The Ring of the Nibelung”, page 41:

     While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain, they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.

• “slain”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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