walls
plural of “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
An inflected form of wall · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 892 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,634 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- 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 windowthe walls were covered with pictures
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect a wall of watera wall of smoke
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure also: paries stomach walls
- a difficult or awkward situation his back was to the wallcompetition was pushing them to the wall
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a layer of material that encloses space the walls of the cylinder were perforatedthe container's walls were blue
walls in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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On all sides the towering walls rose for hundreds of feet.
The Land of the Changing Sun · Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben · Chapter 1
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I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Night and day, around the walls, the fusillade rattled, and the artillery thundered.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark 335 The track of thy destroying bark.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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But there stood great woods on the slopes beyond--old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ruined house.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1