mural
noun/ˈmjʊərəl/
/ˈmjʊrəl/
- a painting, usually a large one, done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a building
- murals depicting Aesop’s fables
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- giant
- huge
- large-scale
- …
- create
- produce
- paint
- …
- depict something
- show something
Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus ‘wall’. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th cent.) the sense ‘placed or executed on a wall’ arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th cent.).Definitions on the go
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