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View synonyms for intramural

intramural

[ in-truh-myoor-uhl ]

adjective

  1. involving only students at the same school or college:

    intramural athletics.

  2. within the walls, boundaries, or enclosing units, as of a city, institution, or building. Compare extramural.
  3. Anatomy. being within the substance of a wall, as of an organ.
  4. involving or understood only by members of a single group, profession, etc.:

    an intramural medical conference.



intramural

/ ˌɪntrəˈmjʊərəl /

adjective

  1. education operating within or involving those in a single establishment
  2. anatomy within the walls of a cavity or hollow organ
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌintraˈmurally, adverb
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Other Words From

  • intra·mural·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of intramural1

First recorded in 1840–50; intra- + mural
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Example Sentences

Yost still finds time to play intramural softball on top of her academic work.

Both 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.

Congregations stood loyally by their pastors, and discussion was strictly intramural.

Everybody knows that an intramural churchyard has a tendency to enlarge itself—not in area, but in perpendicularity.

The latter accord more with ancient cities which were intramural.

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

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