Lain Definition

lān
verb

Lie.

Webster's New World

Past participle of lie (oriented in a horizontal position, situated).

He had lain there for many hours.
The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
Wiktionary

(obsolete) To conceal, keep quiet about. [14th-19th c.]

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Origin of Lain

  • From Old Norse løyna (“to conceal”) (= Old English līġnan), from Proto-Germanic *laugnā (“secrecy”).

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  • Inflected forms.

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Lain Sentence Examples

  • Their residence must have lain chiefly in Indi.Vis.

  • His eyes traveled to where his father had lain.

  • Its colors were pale purple and the bed beneath him more comfortable than any he'd lain in.

  • The bullet had caught him full in the chest, driving him backward into the scooped out grotto where his uncle had lain for more than half a century.

  • During the progress of the works, however, he acted as surveyor, and accumulated in that lucrative employment a sum of several thousand pounds, discovered after his death in an old iron chest, which had evidently lain unopened for above thirty years.

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LLALAI

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