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walt

/wɔːlt/

walt verb: to roll; tumble.

Verb

walt (third-person singular simple present walts, present participle walting, simple past and past participle walted)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To roll; tumble
  2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To turn; cast; hurl; fling; overturn

Adjective

walt (comparative more walt, superlative most walt)

  1. (archaic) unsteady; crank

Proper noun capitalized: Walt

Walt (plural Walts)

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Walter.

Noun capitalized: Walt

Walt (plural Walts)

  1. (UK, derogatory, slang) Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).
    • You're just a bloody Walt!

Phrase capitalized: WALT

WALT

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of we are learning to....

walt meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

walt in Hindi

वाल्ट

walt in Bengali

ওয়াল্ট

walt in Telugu

వాల్ట్కి

walt in Malayalam

വാൾട്ട്
More languagesFewer languages
walt in Gujarati
વોલ્ટને
walt in Odia
ୱାଲ୍ଟଙ୍କୁ

Forms of walt

Verb
third-person singular presentwalts
present participlewalting
past participlewalted
pastwalted
alternative formvault
Adjective
comparativemore walt
superlativemost walt
Proper noun
pluralWalts
alternative formWalt.
Noun
pluralWalts

Origin of walt

From Middle English walten, from Old English wæltan, weltan, wieltan, wyltan, wiltan, from Proto-West Germanic *waltijan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną (“to roll; roll about”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen (“to wallow; roll”), Danish vælte (“to tumble; overthrow”), Swedish välta (“to roll; tumble over; overthrow”). Related to waltz.

From Middle English *walt, from Old English *wealt (attested in unwealt (“not given to roll; steady”), sinwealt (“circular, eternally rolling”)), from Proto-Germanic *waltaz (“changing; unstable”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”).

Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.

Words formed from walt

Words that rhyme with walt

Questions about walt

What does walt mean?
Walt means to roll; tumble.
What is walt in Hindi?
Walt in Hindi is वाल्ट. See Walt meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is walt?
Walt can be a verb, an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce walt?
Walt is pronounced /wɔːlt/.
What is the past tense of walt?
The past tense of walt is walted.

Words near walt in the dictionary

  1. Walstrom
  2. walstromite
  3. Walstroms
  4. Walsworth
  5. Walsworths
  6. walt
  7. Walt.
  8. Waltair
  9. Walter
  10. Walter Mitties
  11. Walter Mitty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: walt (page history and authors); Walt (page history and authors); WALT (page history and authors); walt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walt (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walt (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walt (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walt (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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