wall
/wɔl/ noun A1- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. · The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
- 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.
- A point of desperation.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- An impediment to free movement. · A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A barrier. · a seawall; a firewall
Plural walls
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.
Taking it up, the man returned to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service rendered him by the Eagle.
Though the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep outside the hole.
A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
Other matches
- wall To boil. C2
- wall To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. C2
- wall To make a wall knot on the end of C2
- wall A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope C2
- wall Used as a discourse marker. C2
- wall in To enclose by surrounding with walls.
- wall off To separate with a wall.
- wall up To seal with a wall.
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