/fɔːlt/
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Translation
Something wrong in a thing that stops it working well, or the blame when something bad happens.
Word origin
From Old French faute, from Latin fallere, meaning to fail or to deceive.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- faute
- English cognates
- false, fail
Grammar
Gender
Pluralfaults
Examples
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Here "fault" is something wrong inside a machine.
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"It is my fault" means you take the blame for something bad.
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The plural is "faults", for more than one thing that is wrong.
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