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Old transport on river beyond the walls
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extramural
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Word definitions for extramural in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, from extra- + ending from intermural .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 taking place outside the walls of an institution, especially a school or university 2 describing teaching of students who are not resident at such an institution alt. 1 taking place outside the walls of an institution, especially a school or university ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ extramural sports ▪ the director of extramural research EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He has always been careful to balance his busy executive life with a strong interest in extramural activities. ▪ It presumably developed ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community; "extramural sports" [ant: intramural ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extramural \Ex`tra*mu"ral\, a. Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city. pertaining to activities, such as sports contests, that involve representatives from more than one school.
Usage examples of extramural.
No extramural God, the God within Alone gives aid to city charged with sin.
Los Angeles police fought that homely extramural vice for a weary decade, until sprawling LA reached out a pseudopod one day and swallowed Venice up.
They made him feel he had to prove something, prove that the apparent Joseph was simply a mask for a mysterious, resourceful, dashing Joseph, whose extramural activities were closer to those of a James Bond than a guitar player in a Soho clip-joint.
He wrote to the Extramural Department of the university under which Victor had worked, saying that his son had come home suffering from a serious mental breakdown, and requesting, for medical purposes, an account of his recent life, and the opinion of his employers about him.
Gunn inaugurated a series of filmed interviews with science fiction editors and writers, produced by the Extramural Independent Study Center of the University of Kansas.