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

He says he feels like he's the "bumbling buffoon" in the "walled garden that is traditional publishing" and that he's committed a kind of "literary heist".

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Barely 24 hours had passed since thieves had broken into the Louvre Museum and stolen France’s crown jewels when the mayor of Langres, a walled medieval town in Eastern France, received a troubling phone call.

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Frankie escaped from a walled garden at the park on Sunday 2 November, despite having clipped feathers.

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Staff at Paradise Park in Hayle, Cornwall, said the young flamingo, called Frankie, had taken flight from the walled garden at the park on Sunday morning, despite it having clipped feathers.

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Ethan had texted to tell her James would be spending the night, but Sarah has walled herself off from as much human contact as possible, and doesn’t read her texts.

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