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valla

valla is the plural of vallum.

Meaning of vallum

Noun

vallum (plural vallums or valla)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
  2. The eyebrow.

Proper noun capitalized: Valla

Valla (plural Vallas)

  1. A surname.
  2. A locality in the Bellingen council area and the Nambucca Valley council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Forms of valla

pluralVallas

Origin of valla

Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Valla, a variant of Valle. * Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Valla, from vall (“pasture, meadow”). * Borrowed from Albanian Valla, a variant of Vallas.

Words formed from valla

Questions about valla

What does valla mean?
Valla means a surname.
What is valla the plural of?
Valla is the plural of vallum.
What part of speech is valla?
Valla is a proper noun.

Words near valla in the dictionary

  1. Valkyrias
  2. valkyrie
  3. valkyrielike
  4. valkyries
  5. Valkyrs
  6. valla
  7. Valla Beach
  8. Vallabhacharyan
  9. Valladares
  10. Valladolid
  11. vallance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: valla (page history and authors); Valla (page history and authors); vallum (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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