Berlin Wall
Proper noun
  1. (history) A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East German from escaping to West Berlin.
Related terms
  • fall of the wall
Translations
  • French: mur de Berlin
  • German: Berliner Mauer, antifaschistischer Schutzwall
  • Italian: Muro di Berlino
  • Portuguese: Muro de Berlim
  • Russian: Берли́нская стена́
  • Spanish: muro de Berlín
Noun

Berlin Wall

  1. (politics) Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
Translations
  • Portuguese: muro de Berlim



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