mural
Americannoun
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a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
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a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
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a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil.
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
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executed on or affixed to a wall.
mural inscriptions.
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pertaining to any of several astronomical instruments that were affixed to a wall aligned on the plane of a meridian, and were formerly used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies.
a mural quadrant; a mural circle.
noun
adjective
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The Mexican artist Diego Rivera was noted for his production of murals.
Other Word Forms
- muralist noun
Etymology
Origin of mural
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin mūrālis, equivalent to mūr ( us ) wall + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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His Fort Worth restaurant—named for his nickname, Chalio—features murals that reflect that family history.
From Salon
Chavez statues have already begun to be removed and murals vandalised.
From BBC
Her eyes land on the mural behind the stage, where one of the painted dancers is wearing bright red lipstick that clashes with her pink beaded collar.
From Literature
The group brought 17 girls from the Eastside and the San Gabriel Valley together at local community gardens and historic murals, like Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley.
From Los Angeles Times
It started on a quiet residential side street, then turned left past a giant blue mural before snaking 100m down the main road to the doors of a new dental practice.
From BBC
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