wall

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A solid upright structure that forms a side of a room or building, or divides one space from another.

   They hung the painting on the living room wall.

2. 2
   noun

   A solid upright structure built outdoors to enclose or protect an area.

   A high stone wall surrounded the garden.

3. 3
   noun

   Something that acts like a wall by blocking or separating.

   A wall of water rushed down the valley.

Common collocations

• high wall Adjective + noun
• build a wall Verb + noun
• paint a wall Verb + noun
• bare wall Adjective + noun
• thick wall Adjective + noun
• wall hanging Adjective + noun

Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.

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