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paywall

Syllables: pay·wallUK/ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/US/ˈpeɪ.wɔl/

paywall noun: a system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.

Noun

paywall (plural paywalls)

  1. (informal) A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.
    • The premium content on this website is behind a paywall.
    • Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot

Verb

paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)

  1. (informal, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.

paywall meaning in Tamil

paywall in Tamil

கட்டண வலைத்தளம்

Forms of paywall

Noun
pluralpaywalls
Verb
third-person singular presentpaywalls
present participlepaywalling
past participlepaywalled
pastpaywalled

Origin of paywall

From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.

Words formed from paywall

Questions about paywall

What does paywall mean?
Paywall means a system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.
What is paywall in Tamil?
Paywall in Tamil is கட்டண வலைத்தளம். See Paywall meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paywall?
Paywall can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce paywall?
Paywall is pronounced /ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of paywall?
The plural of paywall is paywalls.

Words near paywall in the dictionary

  1. Paytons
  2. paytriot
  3. paytriots
  4. payts.
  5. PAYU
  6. paywall
  7. paywalled
  8. paywalling
  9. paywalls
  10. payware
  11. payyetan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paywall (page history and authors); paywall (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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