• (America) IPA: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/

mural (plural murals)

1. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.

• French: peinture murale
• German: Wandgemälde
• Italian: murales
• Russian: стенна́я ро́спись
• Spanish: mural

mural (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.

   a mural quadrant

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird
     Her mural breach

   • In the nectarine and the like delicate mural fruit, the later your pruning, the better.

2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.

   a mural precipice

mural (murals, present participle muralling; past and past participle muralled)

1. To create a mural.
   • 1987, Cahners Publishing Company, Restaurants & Institutions ↗, Volume 97, Issues 5-7

     Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.