Muralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈmjʉːɹəl/
• (Ireland) IPA: /ˈmjuːɹəl/
• 韻: -ʊəɹəl

名詞

mural (plural murals)

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

形容詞

mural (not comparable)

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

   a mural quadrant

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 878–879:

     Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.

   • 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [February.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 10:

     [Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]

2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.

   a mural precipice

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]

派生語

動詞

mural (third-person singular simple present murals, present participle (UK) muralling or (US) muraling, simple past and past participle (UK) muralled or (US) muraled)

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.

   • 2014, Whittaker Chambers, Witness‎:

     Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.

アナグラム

• larum, rumal