Antonyms for wall

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wawl

Phonetic Transcription : wɔl

Definition of wall

Origin : Old English weall "rampart" (natural as well as man-made), also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building, interior partition," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wal) from Latin vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake." Swedish vall, Danish val are from Low German.
In this case, English uses one word where many languages have two, e.g. German Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in reference to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (cf. the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in Italian muro/parete, Irish mur/fraig, Lithuanian muras/siena, etc.).
Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, American English student slang. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1953, of carpeting; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.

noun obstruction, divider

Example sentences :

Percival, with his new air of Wall Street operator, was inclined to hesitate.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

It's lucky the captain knows nothing of my Wall Street speculations.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

We'll put it across that corner, and have the couch against that wall.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

Take my bridle off the wall, you, Jeff, and throw it at my feet.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

But much as he yearned to do so, he dared not search the wall.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

On the wall opposite the house the name of "Gladstone" is carved.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

And working men may keep the wall, and jostle prince and peer.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

The great mace used by his ecclesiastical ancestor he unhooked from the wall.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

Dick glowered sullenly at the wall and tugged his great moustache.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

You got your gun on Lanning—off the wall—before he had you covered?
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Synonyms for wall

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