Definitions for mural

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mural mu·ral

Spelling: [myoo r-uh l]

IPA: /ˈmyʊər əl/

Mural is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in mural (almru).

Definitions for mural

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:
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:

Origin of mural

1400-50; late Middle English Latin mūrālis, equivalent to mūr(us) wall + -ālis -al¹

Examples for mural

Now, he was flanked by a mural of pastel-colored ice-cream cones.

The teachers encouraged him, gave him a school wall for a mural.

A mural tablet might be set in the front of the central building, at a small expense.

He meant that the faces of many of the figures in the mural were still blank.

The coins of Zamasp have the usual inflated ball and mural crown, but with a crescent in place of the front limb of the crown.

Congress had voted money for mural paintings for the rotunda of the Capitol.

Like a masterpiece—or a mural across the side of a subway car—the art of graffiti seemed to spring up overnight in New York City.

By April 17, Warhol had written a letter to the Department of Public Works authorizing that the mural be painted over.

They, too, like the Egyptians, embellished their tombs with mural paintings.

Mastrion immediately decided to change her concept to a mural of the band.