wall
//wɔːl//
Forms
- Plural
- walls
- present (v1)
- wall
- past (v2)
- walled
- past participle (v3)
- walled
- present participle
- walling
- 3rd person singular
- walls
Definitions
1.A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- Don't lean against this wall.
2.A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
3.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.
- Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
4.A point of desperation.
- Don't lean against this wall.
1.To use a wallhack.(slang)
2.To wallbang.(slang)
- I walled her. She's low [health].
3.To well, as water; spring.
4.To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
- He walled the study with books.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #676
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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”).