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mural

adjective
🔊/ˈmjʊərəl/
🔊/ˈmjʊrəl/
 [only before noun]
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  1. (of a painting) large and done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a building壁画
    • mural paintings壁画
    Topics Artc2

mural

noun
🔊/ˈmjʊərəl/
🔊/ˈmjʊrəl/
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  1. a painting, usually a large one, done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a building壁画
    • murals depicting Aesop’s fables讲述《伊索寓言》的壁画
    Topics Houses and homesc1, Artc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • giant
    • huge
    • large-scale
    • …
    verb + mural
    • create
    • produce
    • paint
    • …
    mural + verb
    • depict something
    • show something
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus ‘wall’. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th cent.) the sense ‘placed or executed on a wall’ arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th cent.).