Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
- adj. Painted on or applied to a wall.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a wall.
- Placed on a wall; of plants, trained on a wall.
- Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep: as, a mural structure or formation.
- In pathology, noting vesical calculi when rugous and covered with tubercles. Such calculi are composed of oxalate of lime, and are also called mulberry calculi.
- n. A wall.
Wiktionary
- n. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- adj. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
- adj. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall.
- adj. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a painting that is applied to a wall surface
- adj. of or relating to walls
Etymologies
- From Latin muralis, from murus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, of a wall, from Old French, from Latin mūrālis, from mūrus, wall. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That and the absence of text tells me that the mural is art, not an advertisement, because it is a picture of fish, not of the gear used to catch fish.”
“One of the focal points of the mural is a brown-skinned man clasping the hands of a white-skinned woman.”
“Notice that the pre-conquest portion of the mural is almost always done in live, vibrant color.”
“His essay strongly underscores how the mural is an excellent representation of the essence of Chicanismo.”
“Increasingly here in Mexico's capital, the graffiti mural is coming to represent what some local experts feel is a new movement in mural art in the great tradition of early 20th century Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros.”
Graffiti: the Estadio Azteca and Mexico City's new wave muralists
“WHAT IM SEEING Dot Com has pictures up of a superhero/super villain mural being created in San Francisco's Mission District.”
“That wall mural is really awesome, I might have to steal that idea.”
“A Tomahawk missile launch toward the Vietnam and Persian Gulf side of the mural is symbolic of the refitting of the battleship with modern weapons in the mid-1980s.”
“Lavanya: You can find the fingerprints of street artist Kelly Towles all over D.C. (his most recent mural is a biggie at W and 12th streets NW).”
The Washington Post: Inglourious (Crafty) Bastards: Highlights from Saturday's fest
“You can also see it in mural form at the Royal Palace in Bangkok.”
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