extramural

[ ek-struh-myoor-uhl ]

adjective

1. involving representatives of more than one school:

   extramural athletics.

2. outside the walls or boundaries, as of a city or town or a university: Compare intramural ( defs 1, 2 ).

   extramural teaching; an extramural church.

extramural

/ ˌɛkstrəˈmjʊərəl /

adjective

1. connected with but outside the normal courses or programme of a university, college, etc

   extramural studies

2. located beyond the boundaries or walls of a city, castle, etc

Derived Forms

• ˌextraˈmurally, adverb

Other Words From

• extra·mural·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of extramural¹

1850–55; extra- + mural. Compare Late Latin extramūrānus, in same sense

Example Sentences

Acton had been in the great city for two days, lodged in an extramural inn established by a Greek.

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It is in these extramural regions that the interest mostly lies for epidemical diseases.

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Havana has two quarters, the intramural and the extramural; the former lies along the bay.

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There are low extramural mounds to the north, showing that on this side the dwellings were composed of straggling chambers.

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The features of every day were things per se, not capable of comparison with casual extramural samples.

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Related Words

• farther
• foreign
• out