fault – English noun declension

English noun forms of fault

Noun: fault
Singularfault
Pluralfaults

Sample Sentences

  • No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.
  • I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault.
  • The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings. [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • A police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that a note found at the scene addressed to Ms. Spade's 13-year-old daughter indicated, among other things, that what had happened was not the child’s fault. [2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2018:]
  • How many more innocent people and kids gotta get killed by these police, man? / And then it's always the victim's fault [2020, “Point the Finger”, in Carnivore (Rap Metal, Thrash Metal), performed by Body Count ft. Riley Gale, United States:]
  • Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.
  • You're still young, that's your fault.
  • Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.
  • The time of greatest prevalence of this microörganism, August and September, agreed in general with the occurrence of this cheese fault. Not a single Cheddar cheese was found which turned blue, and as the iron content of Cheddar cheese was low the author regards this as supporting his conclusion that iron is the cause of the fault. [1891, T.J. Klaverweiden, “The cause of blue spots in cheese”, in Milch Zeitung, volume 23, number 35, pages 558-560; republished as Experiment station record, volume 25, United States Office of Experiment Stations, 1896, page 482:]
  • No common wine fault is likely to cause serious health problems but you won't want to take the tasting much further if the wine smells faulty. [2003, Godfrey Spence, Wine tasting, page 5:]
  • As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
  • It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault. [1879, Julian Marshall, Lawn-tennis: With the Laws Adopted by the M. C. C., and A. E. C. & L. T. C., and Badminton, page 8:]
  • If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.
  • That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups. [2003, Alexandre A. Soloviev, Vladimir Isaakovich Kelis-Borok, Nonlinear Dynamics of the Lithosphere and Earthquake Prediction, page 32:]
  • Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out. [1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:]
  • one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:]

Etymology

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false. See: Middle English Nouns 'faulte', Latin Nouns 'falsus', Old English Nouns 'scyld', Middle English Nouns 'last', Old Norse Nouns 'lǫstr', French Nouns 'faute', Portuguese Nouns 'falta', Spanish Nouns 'falta'.

Verbs referencing "fault"

Romanian Nouns fault, French Nouns faute, Galician Nouns falta, Portuguese Nouns falta.