"stone wall" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈstoʊnwɔl/ [General-American], /ˈstoʊnwɑl/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-stonewall.ogg [General-American] Forms: stone walls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stone wall (plural stone walls)
  1. A wall made from stone. Synonyms: stonewall Translations (wall made from stone): 石牆 (Chinese Mandarin), 石墙 (shíqiáng) (Chinese Mandarin), taş divar (Crimean Tatar), kiviseinä (Finnish), kivimuuri (Finnish), valado de pedra (Galician), Steinmauer [feminine] (German), Steinwand [feminine] (German), kőfal (Hungarian), muro di pietra [masculine] (Italian), 石垣 (ishigaki) (alt: いしがき) (Japanese), 石塀 (ishibei) (alt: いしべい) (Japanese), kelek [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), steinmur [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), steinvegg [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), (drystone) steingjerde [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), steinmur [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), steinvegg [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), (drystone) steingjerde [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), steingard [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ка́менная стена́ (kámennaja stená) [feminine] (Russian), stenmur [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stone_wall-en-noun-twkzyLcR

Verb

IPA: /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈstoʊnwɔl/ [General-American], /ˈstoʊnwɑl/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-stonewall.ogg [General-American] Forms: stone walls [present, singular, third-person], stone walling [participle, present], stone walled [participle, past], stone walled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} stone wall (third-person singular simple present stone walls, present participle stone walling, simple past and past participle stone walled)
  1. Alternative form of stonewall. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: stonewall Categories (topical): Walls and fences
    Sense id: en-stone_wall-en-verb-qT84WhdC Disambiguation of Walls and fences: 41 59 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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