Walla Walla

/ˌwɒlə ˈwɒlə/

proper noun

A city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.

Meanings

Walla Walla1

proper noun
  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
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    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
nounWalla Walla pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyA Sahaptin indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau.
nounWalla Walla (plural Walla Wallas)

plural Walla Wallas

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

Walla Walla2

proper noun

Origin

From the Walla Walla people.

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Chicago

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