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wall¹
- /wɔːl/ UK
- /woːl/ British, Southern, Standard
- /wɔl/ Scotland, UK
- /waːl/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɔl/ US
- /wɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /woːl/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like Wall · Rhymes with -ɔːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
noun walls
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure. We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
- A point of desperation.
- A point of defeat or extinction. They want Abramovich out for obvious reasons, including the optics, and they do not want to send Chelsea to the wall as they consider the club to be of cultural significance to the country.
- An impediment to free movement. A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
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The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use.
Similar: wall brown
- A barrier. a seawall; a firewall
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall. a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces
- A means of defence or security. I built a wall between myself and the bullies.
- One of the vertical sides of a container. The extraordinary thinness of the walls of these vases, which reminds us of the finest china, or even of Venetian glass
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A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
There is definitely some sort of lump on the back wall of my throat (right side).
Similar: paries
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A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
Similar: chandelier
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A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
Opposite: sieve
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal. Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team. It can also be used to maintain the presence of a wall when one of the blockers who makes up the wall is picked off by an opposing blocker attempting to shut down the wall.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
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A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
Similar: profile
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly. Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself Marla. Get ready for the wall.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given. He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. […] Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taki
- A very steep slope.
verb walls · walling · walled
- To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. He walled the study with books.
- To use a wallhack.
- To wallbang. I walled her. She's low [health].
wall²
- /wɔːl/ UK
- /woːl/ British, Southern, Standard
- /wɔl/ Scotland, UK
- /waːl/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɔl/ US
- /wɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /woːl/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like Wall · Rhymes with -ɔːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
verb walls · walling · walled
- To boil.
- To well, as water; spring.
wall³
- /wɔːl/ UK
- /woːl/ British, Southern, Standard
- /wɔl/ Scotland, UK
- /waːl/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɔl/ US
- /wɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /woːl/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like Wall · Rhymes with -ɔːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
noun walls
- A spring of water.
wall⁴
- /wɔːl/ UK
- /woːl/ British, Southern, Standard
- /wɔl/ Scotland, UK
- /waːl/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɔl/ US
- /wɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /woːl/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like Wall · Rhymes with -ɔːl
noun walls
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb walls · walling · walled
- To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
wall⁵
- /wɔːl/ UK
- /woːl/ British, Southern, Standard
- /wɔl/ Scotland, UK
- /waːl/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɔl/ US
- /wɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /woːl/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like Wall · Rhymes with -ɔːl
interjection
- Pronunciation spelling of well Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")
Wall⁶
Where it comes from
Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.
proper noun Walls
- A surname. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Wall taught karate at a local nursing home.
- A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
- A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
- A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, named after Garret D. Wall. The new yearbooks at Wall Township High School in Wall, New Jersey – with the original, unaltered photos – will be available for students to pick up in about two weeks, Cheryl Dyer, the superintendent of Wall Township schools, said in a letter to students and parents.
- A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
Wall⁷
Where it comes from
See wall.
proper noun the Wall
- The Berlin Wall.
- The Trump Wall.
- The Great Wall of China.
Wall⁸
Where it comes from
Calque of Mandarin 壁宿 (Bìxiù).
proper noun
- A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
Wall⁹
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given names Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rampart, bulwark, fence, fence in, palisade, surround, paries, embankment, gate, barricade, barrier, facade, seawall, plank, breakwall, berm
Translations
Every language
noun defensive rampart
| Español | muro, muralla, pared |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 벽 byeok, 성벽 seongbyeok |
| 日本語 | 壁 kabe, 城壁 jōheki |
| 中文 | 牆壁 /墙壁 qiángbì, 牆 /墙 qiáng, 隔牆 /隔墙 géqiáng |
| हिन्दी | दीवार dīvār, बाधा bādhā, रुकावट rukāvaṭ, भीत bhīt |
| Kiswahili | ukuta |
| Português | muro, muralha |
| Français | mur |
| Deutsch | Wall |
| Italiano | mura, vallo, muraglia, fortificazione |
| Ελληνικά | τείχος teíchos |
| Română | perete |
| Русский | стена́ stená, вал val |
| Tiếng Việt | tường |
| العربية | حَائِط ḥāʔiṭ, جِدَار jidār, سُور sūr |
| עברית | חוֹמָה khomá |
noun structure built for defense surrounding an area
| Español | muro, muralla, murallón, casamuro, adarve |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 벽 byeok |
| 日本語 | 壁 kabe |
| 中文 | 牆壁 /墙壁 qiángbì, 牆 /墙 qiáng |
| हिन्दी | दीवार dīvār, बाधा bādhā, प्राकार prākār, भीत bhīt |
| Kiswahili | ukuta, kiambaza, ua |
| Português | muralha, muro, valo, baluarte |
| Français | murs, remparts |
| Deutsch | Mauer, Wall |
| Italiano | muro, fortificazione |
| Ελληνικά | τείχος teíchos |
| Română | zid, mur |
| Русский | стена́ stená, вал val |
| العربية | سُور sūr |
| עברית | חוֹמָה khomá |
noun substantial structure acting as side or division in a building
| Español | pared, tabique, muralla, muro, tabicón, citara |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 벽 byeok |
| 日本語 | 壁 kabe |
| 中文 | 牆壁 /墙壁 qiángbì, 牆 /墙 qiáng |
| हिन्दी | दीवार dīvār, भीत bhīt |
| Kiswahili | kuta |
| Português | parede |
| Français | mur, paroi, cloison |
| Deutsch | Wand, Mauer |
| Italiano | muro, parete |
| Ελληνικά | τοίχος toíchos |
| Română | perete |
| Русский | стена́ stená |
| Tiếng Việt | tường |
| العربية | جِدَار jidār |
| עברית | קיר kir |
noun butterfly Lasiommata megera
| Kiswahili | kuta |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Mauerfuchs |
| Русский | бурогла́зка меге́ра buroglázka megéra, краегла́зка меге́ра krajeglázka megéra |
noun impediment to free movement — see also barrier
| हिन्दी | घेराव gherāv |
|---|---|
| Kiswahili | kuta |
| Português | barreira |
| Deutsch | Barriere, Hemnis |
| Italiano | barriera |
| Русский | прегра́да pregráda, барье́р barʹjér, стена́ stená, препя́тствие prepjátstvije |
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title = {wall},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-05}
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