wall

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/wɔːl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A vertical structure that divides or surrounds an area.

  2. 02

    verb

    To surround, block, or cover with a wall.

Examples

  • The first coat of plaster levels out the surface of the wall.

  • You never listen. I might as well talk to the wall.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /waːl/
  • /woːl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

  2. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

  3. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

More examples

In context

  • The car crashed into the wall.

  • A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.

  • The town wall was surrounded by a moat.

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Origin

noun

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.