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intramural

intramural

7 6.5
Happening inside a school or college for students
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˈmjʊrəl/
translation icon : intraescolar
  • The university offers various programs, including an intramural basketball league for students.
  • intramural sports
  • intramural programs
  • intramural teams

He's a researcher for NIH, So he's intramural researcher at NIH.

Examples

  • I got to warn you, I played second-team coed intramural volleyball at Santa Cruz.

  • I was in the marching band and track; he played intramural basketball and was academically sound.

    Blog text (11)
  • I might even try the intramural swim meet in the spring if I can keep my practice going.

    Academic text (2008)
  • So it started seven or eight years ago during an intramural soccer game.

  • Each house has its own committee to plan dances, student faculty, coffee hours, and intramural sports.

  • No, my uni intramural basketball league.

  • In addition, the new program included intramural and varsity athletics.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The officials were approached prior to an intramural flag football contest they were to officiate.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The year after that, they rescheduled the start of the intramural season to coincide with tax season.

  • Students enrolled in Psychology 100 who did not compete beyond the intramural level of competition made up the nonathletic sample.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

intragroup
vsintramural
7.2

Happening inside a group of people

is used for activities inside one institution as a whole rather than small groups
intraclass
vsintramural
6.4

Happening inside the same group, like students or teams

is applied to events inside the entire institution rather than a single class
intradepartmental
vsintramural
7.0

Relates to things that happen inside one department of a company or organization

refers to activities across the whole institution not limited to one department
intracompany
vsintramural
5.7

Happening inside one company, for example between departments

describes actions inside an institution like a school rather than within one company
intraoffice
vsintramural
4.4

Something that happens inside one office or company

means events inside the whole institution not only in one office space
intrasquad
vsintramural
  • Jargon
7.5

Happening between members of the same team during practice

applies to events across the whole institution not just within one team

Antonyms

1 7.2

Held outside a school or university but organized by it

Surface Forms

intramural positive

Morphology

intramural = mural (semi-transparent) = intra + mural

The prefix 'intra-' means 'within', and 'mural' relates to walls, but the specific institutional context is not immediately obvious.

Etymology

The word intramural comes from intra- meaning 'within' and mural meaning 'wall', the same mural you know as a painting on a wall. So intramural means activities that happen 'within the walls' of a school or college, in other words inside the institution.