noun

mural

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noun

A large picture painted directly onto a wall or ceiling.

"The artist spent a month painting a mural on the side of the school."

"Tourists stop to photograph the colorful mural downtown."

adj

Relating to or resembling a wall.

"The cliff face rose in a sheer mural face above the valley."

How to Use Mural

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishWall art — a painting made directly on a wall rather than on canvas.

Common pairings

paint a mural wall mural mural artist

muraled past tense, muralled past tense, murals plural, murals singular

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From French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus ("wall").

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