BEARING WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bearing wall mean? 

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

1. any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARING WALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bearing wall" is a kind of...):

support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)

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)