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Berlin Wall

/bɜːˈlɪn wɔːl/ · name

Meaning

  1. The Berlin Defence.
  2. 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.
  3. A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.

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