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ballia

ballia is the plural of ballium.

Meaning of ballium

Noun

ballium (plural balliums or ballia)

  1. Synonym of bailey (“fortification”).
    • [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge...
    Synonyms:
    bailey

Proper noun capitalized: Ballia

Ballia

  1. A city and district of Azamgarh division, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Origin of ballia

Borrowed from Hindi बलिया (baliyā).

Questions about ballia

What does ballia mean?
Ballia means a city and district of Azamgarh division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
What is ballia the plural of?
Ballia is the plural of ballium.
What part of speech is ballia?
Ballia is a proper noun.

Words near ballia in the dictionary

  1. ballhooter
  2. ballhooters
  3. ballhooting
  4. ballhoots
  5. Balli
  6. ballia
  7. Balliang
  8. Balliang East
  9. Balliao
  10. balliards
  11. ballibetoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballia (page history and authors); Ballia (page history and authors); ballium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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