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Definitions for Walled

[1] having walls (sometimes used in combination): a high-walled prison.
[2] enclosed or fortified with a wall: a walled village.
[3] any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
[4] Usually walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
[5] an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.
[6] a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.
[7] an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
[8] the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.
[9] Soccer . a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
[10] Mining . the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.
[11] of or relating to a wall: wall space.
[12] growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress.
[13] situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.
[14] to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off ): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.
[15] to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.
[16] to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up ): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.
[17] a vertical construction made of stone, brick, wood, etc, with a length and height much greater than its thickness, used to enclose, divide, or support (as modifier ) wall hangings Related adjective: mural
[18] (often plural) a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes
[19] anatomy any lining, membrane, or investing part that encloses or bounds a bodily cavity or structure abdominal wall Technical name: paries Related adjective: parietal
[20] mountaineering a vertical or almost vertical smooth rock face
[21] anything that suggests a wall in function or effect a wall of fire ; a wall of prejudice
[22] bang one's head against a brick wall to try to achieve something impossible
[23] drive to the wall or push to the wall to force into an awkward situation
[24] go to the wall to be ruined; collapse financially
[25] drive up the wall slang to cause to become crazy or furious
[26] go up the wall slang to become crazy or furious
[27] have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult situation
[28] See off-the-wall
[29] See wall-to-wall
[30] to protect, provide, or confine with or as if with a wall
[31] (often foll by up) to block (an opening) with a wall
[32] (often foll by in or up ) to seal by or within a wall or walls

Words related to Walled

guarded, protected, strengthened, secured, barricaded, surrounded, belted, block, encircle, armored, entrenched, armed, manned, garrisoned, restricted, fringed, enclosed, defined, girdled

Words nearby Walled

wallah, wallaroo, wallasey, wallboard, wallcovering, walled, walled plain, wallenberg, wallenda, wallensis, wallenstein

Origin of Walled

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all < Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post; see wale1; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Other words from Walled

wall-less , adjective
wall-like , adjective
un·wall , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Walled

Old English weall, from Latin vallum palisade, from vallus stake

Synonyms for Walled

barricaded, covered, guarded, protected, reinforced, secured, strengthened, armed, armored, bulwarked, buttressed, entrenched, garrisoned, manned, safeguarded, supported, bastioned, fortressed, strong