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

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

In an extraordinary midnight police sweep, demonstrators and homeless people who had occupied the site were forcibly removed in January, and the site was walled off with stacked shipping containers to keep opponents out.

From New York Times

Related Words

• barricaded
• covered
• guarded
• protected
• reinforced
• secured
• strengthened