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Walla Walla

/ˌwɒlə ˈwɒlə/

Walla Walla proper noun: a city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.

Proper noun (1)

Walla Walla

  1. A city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.
    • “It increases anxiety in me when I leave a tab open,” said Cameron Haluska, a 26-year-old beer sales representative from Walla Walla, Wash.2025 May 31, Paula Mejía, “Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Start a Bar Tab”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025
    • City governments have joined in by deactivating the cameras or canceling contracts with Flock in Fort Collins, Colorado; Eugene, Oregon; Madison, Wisconsin; Knoxville, Tennessee; Syracuse, New York; and Walla Walla, Washington.2026 July 30, T.M. Brown, “Flock cameras are getting mobbed”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026
  2. A tributary of the Columbia River in Washington, United States; in full, the Walla Walla River.

Noun (1)

Walla Walla pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Sahaptin indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau.

Noun (2)

Walla Walla (plural Walla Wallas)

  1. A kind of sweet onion from Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.

Proper noun (2)

Walla Walla

  1. A town in Greater Hume Shire, in southern New South Wales, Australia.

Forms of Walla Walla

pluralWalla Wallas

Origin of Walla Walla

From the Walla Walla people.

Words formed from Walla Walla

Questions about Walla Walla

What does Walla Walla mean?
Walla Walla means a city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.
What part of speech is Walla Walla?
Walla Walla can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Walla Walla?
Walla Walla is pronounced /ˌwɒlə ˈwɒlə/.

Words near Walla Walla in the dictionary

  1. wall-tables
  2. wall-to-wall
  3. wall-wart
  4. wall-warts
  5. walla
  6. Walla Walla
  7. Walla Walla County
  8. Walla Wallas
  9. wallaba
  10. Wallabadah
  11. wallabas

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