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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x1)
- The mural on the bridge shows the town's history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x2)
- Artists painted a huge mural of footballers on the side of the building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x3)
- The church had old murals of Bible stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x4)
- We planned the mural on paper first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x5)
- The mural covered the whole wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mural/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/10/)
- [A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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