wailing wall

1. 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

   Broaderwall

   Part ofJerusalem

Questions about wailing wall

What does wailing wall mean?

wailing wall means "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".

Is wailing wall a common word?

wailing wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.