extramural

1. 1.

   carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community

   “extramural sports”

   Antonymsintramural

   Similarintercollegiateintermuralinterscholasticoutside

Questions about extramural

What does extramural mean?

extramural means "carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community".

How many syllables are in extramural?

extramural has 4 syllables: ex-tra-mu-ral. The stress falls on "tra".

What is the opposite of extramural?

The recorded antonyms are intramural.

Is extramural a common word?

extramural is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.