intramural

[ in-truh-myoor-uhl ]

adjective

1. involving only students at the same school or college:

   intramural athletics.

2. within the walls, boundaries, or enclosing units, as of a city, institution, or building. Compare extramural.
3. Anatomy. being within the substance of a wall, as of an organ.
4. involving or understood only by members of a single group, profession, etc.:

   an intramural medical conference.

intramural

/ ˌɪntrəˈmjʊərəl /

adjective

1. education operating within or involving those in a single establishment
2. anatomy within the walls of a cavity or hollow organ

Derived Forms

• ˌintraˈmurally, adverb

Other Words From

• intra·mural·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of intramural¹

First recorded in 1840–50; intra- + mural

Example Sentences

Doucette started playing flag football in the Xavier University intramural league.

From Los Angeles Times

This work was supported by the intramural research program of the U.S.

From Science Daily

This year, she’s trying a different strategy: stay at school until 7:30 p.m. to attend office hours and club meetings, and sometimes even later to participate in intramural soccer games.

From Los Angeles Times

The move is notable not just because the group, through its campaign giving arm, is inserting itself into the kind of intramural fight against an incumbent that it typically avoids.

From New York Times

Said coach Mike Dulaney: “That guy is such a spark plug and plays the game so effortlessly. We got to get him to do intramural or something.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• constitutional
• domestic
• in-house
• national
• private
• subjective