1. Berlin Wall - Noun
2. Berlin Wall - Proper noun
the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall separated Berlin into two parts before German reunification.
(history) A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.
Berlin Wall (plural Berlin Walls)
(politics) Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism. Joseph Stiglitz
The Berlin Wall is perhaps the most visible expression of the moral gulf between free democracy and totalitarian dictatorship. Helmut Kohl
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down. Nana Mouskouri
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. David Cameron
After decades, with the people's will the Berlin Wall fell. Hope for the day that all walls that separate the nations fall through people's unity and determination. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Berlin wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away. Mikhail Gorbachev