intermural
/ˌɪntɚˈmjuːɹəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Occurring within the walls or boundaries of an organ or other biological structure.
adj
Local to an exhibit or exhibition.
adj
In house; internal to an organization.
adj
Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
adj
Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.
noun
A (usually sport) competition between teams from separate organizations.
noun
A competition between teams from within the same organization.
Example Sentences
- "Turn from this picture to a vault or intermural yard, to the black mould, the coarse , rank, poisonous grass and nettles, the decayed monuments, and the dark shadows of the dismal walls, where the sunshine never sleeps, but where death and gloom ever dwell together."
- "This intermural graveyard was attached to the Church of St. Mary-le-Strand, and has been closed for many years."
- "These buildings feature larger numbers of intermural burials and multiple rebuild phases that have been referred to as “history houses,” domestic buildings in which Çatalhöyük people actively accumulated more extensive transcendent knowledge and symbolic capital."
- "In undertaking the monumental task of summarizing and synthesizing the historical, archaeological, and onomastic scholarship of the previous century, Duncan establishes the basis for subsequent debate, enunciates the evidenciary difficulties involved, and, in disjointed sections, sketches in general terms the political, social, and ecclesiastical history of the intermural British "kingdoms" from their emergence from Romanitas to their disappearance."
- "In Favosites and allied genera, the maximum size of the corallites is soon reached, and the expansion of the coral is mainly derived from intermural growth."
- "In some cases, when I have removed the uterine appendages for intermural fibroid tumours, I have found colloid degeneration of the ovary, and in other cases of intermural fibroid there was no colloid degeneration."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: intermūrālis