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wall

Pronunciation: /wɔːl/

The English word “wall” has 20 meanings listed here.

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.
  13. A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
  14. 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. 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.

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…

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