Mural

/ˈmjʊɹəl/ · noun

Meaning

A large painting, usually drawn on a wall..

Definitions by Sense

1. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
2. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
3. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
4. To create a mural.

Example Sentences

"There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."

a mural quadrant

Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.

[Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]

a mural precipice

Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]

Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.

Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.

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Word Forms

• murals
• muraling
• muralling
• muraled
• muralled

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