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# graffiti

«graffiti» in Mova's school dictionary: **Words or pictures painted, sprayed or scratched on walls…** — 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 (graffiti; uncountable, or plural of graffito)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Words or pictures painted, sprayed or scratched on walls, trains or other public places, usually without permission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#m1)

2) Street art: large, colourful paintings on walls, sometimes made with permission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and citizenship lessons it raises questions of right and wrong: graffiti on other people's property is against the law (vandalism), but some cities have legal walls for street art. In stories it shows a run-down place or a rebellious character. Phrases: spray graffiti, covered in graffiti, graffiti artist, remove graffiti.

### examples

- The bus shelter was covered in graffiti. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x1)
- The council cleaned the graffiti off the school wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x2)
- A graffiti artist painted a beautiful mural with permission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x3)
- Writing graffiti on someone's wall is against the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x4)
- There was graffiti on the old train carriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x5)
- Our class designed a graffiti-style poster for art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/#x6)

### note

Usually treated as uncountable: «the graffiti was removed». Spelling: double f, single t: graffiti. The singular «graffito» is very rare. From Italian.

### In the corpora

- [Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/8/)
- [In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graffiti» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graffiti/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.