mural
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
/ˈmjʊɹəl/
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/ˈmjʊɹəl/ · /ˈmjɝəl/ · /ˈmjʊəɹəl/ · /ˈmjʉːɹəl/ · /ˈmjuːɹəl/
Definition of mural
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
“"There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."”
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noun
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A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
“"There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."”
adj
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(not-comparable)Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
“a mural quadrant”
“Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.”
“[Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]”
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(not-comparable)Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
“a mural precipice”
“Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]”
verb
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To create a mural.
“Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.”
“Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
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