Polyglot Dictionary

Wall

/val/

der noun B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
Wälle

Meaning

  1. rampart

    • Die Stadt war von einem Wall umgeben.

      The town was surrounded by a rampart.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Bollwerk

Close synonyms for a defensive structure — Bollwerk is a bulwark (also used figuratively, a bulwark against something); Wall is a rampart or earthen defensive wall.

Similar in other languages

English

wall

wall is the English word for the same thing — both mean "rampart, wall."

Practice

1 What does Wall mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die Stadt war von einem ___ umgeben.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Wall?

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