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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extramural
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 as an extramural market place.
▪ One night, after an extramural film excursion, Carl stays behind in her flat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extramural

Extramural \Ex`tra*mu"ral\, a.

  1. Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.

  2. pertaining to activities, such as sports contests, that involve representatives from more than one school.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
extramural

1854, from extra- + ending from intermural.

Wiktionary
extramural

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 2 describing teaching of students who are not resident at such an institution

WordNet
extramural

adj. carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community; "extramural sports" [ant: intramural]

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.