Kilo Lingo

/ˈfeɪljə/

Line drawing of failure
Coloured illustration of failure
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Translation

The fact of not succeeding; also a person or thing that does not work.

Word origin

From fail plus -ure, from Latin fallere, meaning to deceive or let down.

Origin
Latin
Root
fallere
English cognates
fail, fault, false

Grammar

Gender
Pluralfailures

Examples

ended .

It did not succeed.

.

Here "a failure" is one time when something went wrong.

.

When a machine stops working, we call it a failure too.

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This word is part of lesson 41.