wall – English noun declension

English noun forms of wall

Noun: wall
Singularwall
Pluralwalls

Sample Sentences

  • The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
  • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:]
  • We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling.  The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
  • […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • 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. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • They want Abramovich out for obvious reasons, including the optics, and they do not want to send Chelsea to the wall as they consider the club to be of cultural significance to the country. [March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:]
  • A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
  • Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use. [2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:]
  • a seawall; a firewall
  • a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces
  • I built a wall between myself and the bullies.
  • The extraordinary thinness of the walls of these vases, which reminds us of the finest china, or even of Venetian glass [1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 60:]
  • There is definitely some sort of lump on the back wall of my throat (right side). [1982 April 24, Matthew Ross, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:]
  • The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:]
  • Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall. [2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2-0 West Brom”, in BBC:]
  • It can also be used to maintain the presence of a wall when one of the blockers who makes up the wall is picked off by an opposing blocker attempting to shut down the wall. [2013, Ellen Parnavelas, The Roller Derby Athlete, page 48:]
  • Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself
  • Marla. Get ready for the wall. [1996 December 27, “The Definitive Answer to "Why Nice Guys Finish Last"”, in alt.romance (Usenet):]
  • At what age would you peg the
  • 'wall' to be for men, on or thereabouts? [2001 February 2, “what a drag it is getting old”, in soc.singles (Usenet):]
  • I have never had a problem getting the attention of men. I'm 44
  • and there's no wall staring me in the face [2001 June 19, “the laws of biomechanics”, in soc.singles (Usenet):]
  • That was only six
  • years later and Natasha is not near the wall yet [2002 January 22, “towards a useful smv metric”, in soc.singles (Usenet):]
  • As for the wall....Im convinced part of this is just something us guys tell ourselves to 'get back'(in our minds) at all the girls who wouldn't sleep with us 5-10 years ago [2015 July 20, “catcalls are bad”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):]
  • He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. […] Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.' [1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:]
  • All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall. [1822, The Pamphleteer, page 118:]
  • Taking the wall thus was also a social distinction. An entire episode in the second book is therefore dedicated “to whom to give the wall” and “to whom to refuse the wall” (II. 4564). [2017, Catharina Löffler, Walking in the City, page 135:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. 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.
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'wal', Old English Nouns 'weall', Latin Nouns 'vallum', Dutch Nouns 'wal', German Nouns 'Wall', Swedish Nouns 'vall'.

Verbs referencing "wall"

Dutch Nouns wal, German Nouns Wall.