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mural

[ 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

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
  2. executed on or affixed to a wall:

    mural inscriptions.

  3. 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.

mural

/ ˈʊəə /

noun

  1. a large painting or picture on a wall
“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

adjective

  1. of or relating to a wall
“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

mural

  1. A painting, usually large, made directly on a wall.
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Notes

The Mexican artist Diego Rivera was noted for his production of murals.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܰ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mural1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin ū, equivalent to ū ( us ) wall + - -al 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mural1

C15: from Latin ū, from ūus wall
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The exhibit, titled “Conversations With Ghosts,” included a mural reproducing a detail from a piece by Corita Kent currently in the Frac Lorraine collection.

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How about we preserve and protect the eye-catching murals that adorn L.A.’s walls and freeway abutments?

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Thanks to my high school students, I had become as enamored of L.A.’s murals and graffiti as I had once been with its celebrities.

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He stopped dealing in 2006 when his son was born and has since painted a mural at his old selling spot.

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Brightman hired Kiernan Graves, a wall-painting conservator who specializes in murals and frescoes, to see what she could find beneath what turned out to be more than nine layers of paint.

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