intramural
involving only students at the same school or college: intramural athletics.
within the walls, boundaries, or enclosing units, as of a city, institution, or building.: Compare extramural.
Anatomy. being within the substance of a wall, as of an organ.
involving or understood only by members of a single group, profession, etc.: an intramural medical conference.
Origin of intramural
1Other words from intramural
- in·tra·mu·ral·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with intramural
- intermural, intramural
Words Nearby intramural
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How to use intramural in a sentence
Yost still finds time to play intramural softball on top of her academic work.
Inside Bartow High, One of America’s Best High Schools | Eliza Shapiro | May 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBoth agencies, especially the CIA, had intramural interests for dissembling and hiding the true facts.
intramural interment was one of the most cherished practices of Christendom so long as the word intramural had a literal meaning.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonCongregations stood loyally by their pastors, and discussion was strictly intramural.
The Imperialist | (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette DuncanEverybody knows that an intramural churchyard has a tendency to enlarge itself—not in area, but in perpendicularity.
Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) | Various
The latter accord more with ancient cities which were intramural.
The Jenolan Caves | Samuel CookHavana has two quarters, the intramural and the extramural; the former lies along the bay.
British Dictionary definitions for intramural
/ (ˌɪntrəˈmjʊərəl) /
education, mainly US and Canadian operating within or involving those in a single establishment
anatomy within the walls of a cavity or hollow organ
Derived forms of intramural
- intramurally, adverb
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