mural
UK/ˈmjʊəɹəl//ˈmjʊɹəl/
mural noun: a large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
Noun
mural (plural murals)
- A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- "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."2026 March 18, Chris Conway talks to Andy Comfort, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 34
Adjective
mural (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
- a mural quadrant
- Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
- 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; […]1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Verb
mural (third-person singular simple present murals, present participle (US) muraling or (UK) muralling, simple past and past participle (US) muraled or (UK) muralled)
- To create a mural.
- Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.1987, Cahners Publishing Company, Restaurants & Institutions, Volume 97, Issues 5-7
- Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.2014, Whittaker Chambers, Witness
mural meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mural in Hindi
- भित्ति-चित्र, भित्तिचित्र
mural in Tamil
- சுவர் மேல் எழுதப்பட்ட சித்திரம், கலையழகு மிக்க சுவர் ஓவியம்
mural in Marathi
- भित्तीचित्र, भित्तिचित्र
mural in Urdu
- دیواری تصویر
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- mural in Bengali
- দেয়ালচিত্র, ভিত্তিচিত্র, দেয়াল সংক্রান্ত
- mural in Telugu
- కుడ్యచిత్రం
- mural in Malayalam
- ചുവർച്ചിത്രം, ഭിത്തിചിത്രം
- mural in Kannada
- ಭಿತ್ತಿಚಿತ್ರ, ಗೋಡೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ರಚಿಸಿದ ವರ್ಣಚಿತ್ರ, ಗೋಡೆಯ
- mural in Gujarati
- ભીંતચિત્ર
- mural in Nepali
- भित्तिचित्र, भित्तीचित्र, भित्ताचित्र
Examples of mural in a sentence
- He had drawn a mural on the wall of his apartment.
- When we stripped away the old wallpaper, we discovered an interesting mural painted on the wall.
- I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
Forms of mural
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | murals |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | murals |
| present participle US | muraling |
| present participle UK | muralling |
| past participle US | muraled |
| past US | muraled |
| past participle UK | muralled |
| past UK | muralled |
Origin of mural
Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
Words formed from mural
Phrases with mural
Words that rhyme with mural
- plural
- anural
- crural
- epidural
- epipleural
- extramural
- intramural
- jural
- neural
- pleural
- bronchopleural
- caesural
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- caricatural
- cesural
- commissural
- cynosural
- duoplural
- dural
- extradural
- extrapleural
- interpleural
- intradural
- intrapleural
- juxtapleural
- macrural
- myodural
- myoneural
- nomenclatural
- nonepidural
- nonneural
- nonrural
- peridural
- photomural
- postdural
- procural
- rural
- semirural
- sensorineural
- splanchnopleural
- sternopleural
- subdural
- subpleural
- superplural
- sural
- transdural
- transpleural
- Ural
- zygopleural
Questions about mural
- What does mural mean?
- Mural means a large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- What is mural in Hindi?
- Mural in Hindi is भित्ति-चित्र, भित्तिचित्र. See Mural meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mural?
- Mural can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mural?
- Mural is pronounced /ˈmjʊɹəl/ (US).
- What is the plural of mural?
- The plural of mural is murals.
Words near mural in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mural (page history and authors); mural (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mural (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mural (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mural (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mural (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mural (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mural (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mural (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mural (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mural (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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