mural
/ˈmjʊɹəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
verb
To create a mural.
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "a mural quadrant"
- "Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld."
- "[Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]"
- "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; […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmjʊɹəl/
- British English: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/