"falls" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɔːlz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɔlz/ [General-American], /fɑlz/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-falls.ogg [US] Forms: falls [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːlz Head templates: {{en-noun|falls}} falls (plural falls)
  1. A waterfall. Categories (topical): Water Categories (place): Waterfalls Translations: водопад (vodopad) [masculine] (Bulgarian), vandfald [neuter] (Danish), vesiputous (Finnish), Wasserfall [masculine] (German), -fälle [masculine, plural] (German), vízesés (Hungarian), wodospad (Polish), водопа́д (vodopád) [masculine] (Russian), eas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)

Noun

IPA: /fɔːlz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɔlz/ [General-American], /fɑlz/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-falls.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɔːlz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} falls
  1. plural of fall Tags: form-of, plural Form of: fall
    Sense id: en-falls-en-noun-aQxtqxtD

Verb

IPA: /fɔːlz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɔlz/ [General-American], /fɑlz/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-falls.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɔːlz Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} falls
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fall Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: fall
    Sense id: en-falls-en-verb-IP2pEZJ~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 3 78 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 3 85

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.