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

Derived Forms

• ˌintraˈmurally, adverb

Other Words From

• intra·mural·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of intramural¹

First recorded in 1840–50; intra- + mural

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

Both agencies, especially the CIA, had intramural interests for dissembling and hiding the true facts.

From The Daily Beast

Intramural interment was one of the most cherished practices of Christendom so long as the word intramural had a literal meaning.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

The latter accord more with ancient cities which were intramural.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• constitutional
• domestic
• in-house
• national
• private
• subjective