mural

«mural» in Mova's school dictionary: a large picture painted directly onto a wall or ceiling — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mural, murals)

meaning for a pupil

A mural is a large picture painted directly onto a wall or ceiling. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons, classes may design a mural for the playground or corridor. In towns, murals show local history, heroes or nature. In history, cave paintings and church wall paintings are early murals. Phrases: «paint a mural», «a school mural», «a street mural», «a wall mural».

examples

• Our class painted a mural of the ocean in the hall. tree →
• The mural on the bridge shows the town's history. tree →
• Artists painted a huge mural of footballers on the side of the building. tree →
• The church had old murals of Bible stories. tree →
• We planned the mural on paper first. tree →
• The mural covered the whole wall. tree →

note

Countable noun. From Latin «murus», wall. A mural is painted on the wall itself, not hung on it like a framed painting. Not the same as graffiti, which is often done without permission.

In the corpora

• A mural is a big planned painting on a wall; without permission painting on walls is damage, even at home.
• A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mural» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.