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əl noun
1.
a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
2.
a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
3.
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
4.
of, pertaining to, or resembling a wall.
5.
executed on or affixed to a wall: mural inscriptions.
6.
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.
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mural (ˈmjʊərəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a large painting or picture on a wall |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of or relating to a wall |
| [C15: from Latin mūrālis, from mūrus wall] | |
| 'muralist | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
mural
1471, "a wall," from M.Fr. muraille, from L. muralia, neut. pl. of muralis "of a wall," from murus "wall" (Old L. moiros, moerus). Mural painting attested from 1850; mural as short for this is from 1921.
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Medical Dictionary
mural mu·ral (my&oobreve;r'əl)
adj.
Of or relating to the wall of any cavity.
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Cultural Dictionary
mural definition
A painting, usually large, made directly on a wall.
Note: The Mexican artist Diego Rivera was noted for his production of murals.
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