walled

[ wawld ]

adjective

1. having walls (sometimes used in combination):

   a high-walled prison.

2. enclosed or fortified with a wall:

   a walled village.

Word History and Origins

Origin of walled¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English geweallod; wall, -ed ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

“The moment you put yourself in a first-class hotel, you become walled off from life, in a world devoted to creature comforts,” Mr. Frommer told The Los Angeles Times in 2009.

From New York Times

To the weekend visitor, our city can seem like a maze of twisting freeways and roads built for cars, walled off to pedestrians.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2018, Mr Soni, originally a resident of Brahmapuri who now lives beyond the walled part of Jodhpur, negotiated with local authorities and communities to save the unique heritage of their hometown.

From BBC

Starting Thursday: a walled resort in southern Italy, then on to the mountain-ringed shores of Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne.

From Los Angeles Times

In a sense it was the beginning of the end for disco — walled off by exclusion on the one end and melted into the mainstream on the other.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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