Antonyms for walls

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wawl

Phonetic Transcription : wɔl

Definition of walls

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 :

Atropos has decreed that I at least shall never again enter her walls.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

The walls are hung with blue Florentine silk, embossed in silver.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

The walls were done in white with a faint blue and silver stripe.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

Tulips are opening their variegated cups, and daffodils line the walls.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

It is now a mere platform, with the walls running up on two sides only.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home

The gates stand open, and there are three thousand of them within the walls.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

On the walls were hung some pieces of tapestry, where there were not bookcases.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Others, in despair, flung themselves from the walls, and for the most part perished.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

They caught the Indian carriers, who were just easing their loads under the walls.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

In every direction the view is restricted or terminated by walls of rock.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

Synonyms for walls

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