WAILING WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wailing Wall mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAILING WALL (noun)

Sense 1

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 (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom)