wall

Meaning

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. (in-compounds, often) A barrier.
9. Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
10. (figuratively) 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.
13. A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
14. (US, slang) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
15. A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
16. Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
17. Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
18. (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
19. A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
20. Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
21. (definite, slang) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
22. (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
23. A very steep slope.

Verb

1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
2. (slang) To use a wallhack.
3. (slang, transitive) To wallbang.

Verb

1. To boil.
2. To well, as water; spring.

Verb

To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Intj

Pronunciation spelling of well.

Opposite of

sieve

Synonyms

fence

partition

barrier

enclosure

rampart

side

fortification

hedge

walling

palisade

bulwark

paries

fortress

mural

obstacle

block

bar

barricade

surround

pen

🖊️

wall in

city

🏙️

fence in

wall brown

fencing

room

screen

septum

castle

🏰

house

🏠

immure

layer

level

lift

obstruction

paling

panel

partition wall

ply

poster

railing

resistance

retrenchment

roadblock

row

sheet

shield

🛡️

stele

stonewall

stone wall

Translations

mur

Mauer

Wand

pared

muro

parede

muro

parete

paroi

muur

muralla

wand

paret

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɔːl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wal

Inherited from Old English: weall

Cognate with Northern Frisian: wal

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Waal

Cognate with Dutch: wal

Cognate with German: Wall

Cognate with Swedish: vall

Inherited from Middle English: wallen

Inherited from Old English: weallan

Cognate with Middle Dutch: wallen

Cognate with Dutch: wellen

Cognate with German: wellen

Cognate with Danish: vælde

Cognate with Swedish: välla

Inherited from Middle English: walle

Inherited from Old English: *wealla

Cognate with Old Frisian: walla

Cognate with Old English: wiell

In summary

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.

Sentences

They fortified the city with a wall with ten gates .

The plush chair leaned against the wall .

Next to a bright red couch , a gray wall will appear distinctly greenish .

The biggest bedroom had a small , ornate fireplace on one wall which had seen recent use judging by the ashes crumbling in the grate .