English Explanatory Dictionary

wall

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
  2. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
  3. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
  4. A point of desperation.
  5. A point of defeat or extinction.
  6. An impediment to free movement.
  7. The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
  8. A barrier.
  9. Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
  10. A means of defence or security.
  11. One of the vertical sides of a container.
  12. A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
verb
  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
  2. To use a wallhack.
  3. To wallbang.
verb
  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.
noun
  1. A spring of water.
noun
  1. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb
  1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
intj
  1. Pronunciation spelling of well.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in England:
  3. A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
  4. A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
  5. A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
  6. A place in the United States:
  7. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
  8. A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
  9. A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
  10. An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
name
  1. The Berlin Wall.
  2. The Trump Wall.
  3. The Great Wall of China.
name
  1. A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Pronunciation

/wɔːl/ En-uk-wall.ogg /waːl/ /wɔl/ /wɑl/ en-us-wall.ogg

Word forms

wall walls walling walled the Wall

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

rampart wall brown paries chandelier profile

Antonyms

sieve

Related words

well overwhelm Waal Wahl Wal Walle Whal

Derived words

abdominal wall accent wall adiabatic wall airwall anterior wall Apartheid Wall back against the wall backs to the wall back to the wall back wall balls-to-the-wall balls to the wall bang one's head against a brick wall basal wall beat one's head against a stone wall Berlin Wall big wall Bloch wall block wall blue wall blue wall of silence body wall bounce off the walls break the fourth wall breast wall brick wall brick-wall limiter café wall illusion cavity wall cell wall cell-wall chest wall Chinese wall city wall climbing wall climb the walls cobwall cookie wall cosmic wall crosswall curtain wall curtainwall dead wall diaphragm wall domain wall DonoWall drive someone to the wall drive someone up the wall drone wall dry stone wall drywall dry wall dwarf wall eastern pellitory-of-the-wall enwall ethical wall eyewall fall of the wall feature wall fifth wall
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