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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mu•ral /ˈmyʊrəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Fine Arta large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling.
mu•ral•ist, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mu•ral (myŏŏr′əl),USA pronunciation n. - Fine Arta large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
- 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.
adj. - of, pertaining to, or resembling a wall.
- executed on or affixed to a wall:mural inscriptions.
- 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.
- Latin mūrālis, equivalent. to mūr(us) wall + -ālis -al1
- late Middle English 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: mural /ˈmjʊərəl/ n - a large painting or picture on a wall
adj - of or relating to a wall
Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin mūrālis, from mūrus wallˈmuralist n |