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WAILING WALL

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• WAILING WALL (noun)
The noun WAILING WALL has 1 sense:

1. a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon

Familiarity information: WAILING WALL used as a noun is very rare.

• WAILING WALL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Holonyms ("Wailing Wall" is a part of...):

capital of Israel; Jerusalem (capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom)

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