mural
Americannoun
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a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
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a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
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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
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of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
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executed on or affixed to a wall.
mural inscriptions.
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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.
noun
adjective
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The Mexican artist Diego Rivera was noted for his production of murals.
Other Word Forms
- muralist noun
Etymology
Origin of mural
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin mūrālis, equivalent to mūr ( us ) wall + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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As a teen he attended a rally with the Hispanic labor and civil-rights icon and for years he has lived across from a school bearing Chavez’s name and a giant mural of his likeness.
Black activists decry a ‘Free Palestine’ mural as offensive.
Black activists decry a ‘Free Palestine’ mural as offensive.
Black activists decry a ‘Free Palestine’ mural as offensive.
Black activists decry a ‘Free Palestine’ mural as offensive.
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