wall

Noun

• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  • they stormed the ramparts of the city
    
  • they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
    

• a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
  • the wall followed the road
    
  • he ducked behind the garden wall and waited
    

• a layer of material that encloses space
  • the walls of the cylinder were perforated
    
  • the container's walls were blue
    

• a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

• a difficult or awkward situation
  • his back was to the wall
    
  • competition was pushing them to the wall
    

• (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
  • stomach walls
    

• anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
  • a wall of water
    
  • a wall of smoke
    
  • a wall of prejudice
    
  • negotiations ran into a brick wall
    

• an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
  • the south wall had a small window
    
  • the walls were covered with pictures
    

Verb

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  rampart , bulwark , paries , palisade , fence , fence in , surround