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mu⋅ral

[myoor-uhl]
–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.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L mūrālis, equiv. to mūr(us) wall + -ālis -al 1
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mu·ral   (myŏŏr'əl)   
n.  A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a wall.

  2. Painted on or applied to a wall.


[Middle English, of a wall, from Old French, from Latin mūrālis, from mūrus, wall.]
mu'ral·ist n.
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Cultural Dictionary

mural

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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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

Main Entry: mu·ral
Pronunciation: 'myur-&l
Function: adjective
: attached to and limited to a wall or a cavity mural thrombus><mural abscesses>
Medical Dictionary

mural mu·ral (my&oobreve;r'əl)
adj.
Of or relating to the wall of any cavity.

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