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extramural /ˌɛkstrəˈmjʊər(ə)l /adjective1British (Of a course of study) arranged for people who are not full-time members of a university or other educational establishment: extramural education...- At 12, he began extramural studies with Massey University, graduating three years later with a degree in mathematics and computer science.
- He was disappointed to hear that there were fewer opportunities for archaeology to thrive through extramural classes and continuing education.
- I cracked open my extramural course material today, flicked through some pages, and promptly freaked out.
1.1Additional to one’s work or course of study: extramural activities...- Moreover, a 2.0 average allows the student to enter college preparatory courses and access extramural activities such as sports.
- Or, they should strike so as to affect only extramural activities.
- In the process the children were being deprived of a facility for their extramural activities.
2Outside the walls or boundaries of a town or city: the extramural cemetery in Brighton...- A variation on this arrangement was prevalent in the western coastal colonies, but in these and other coastal cities Demeter's extramural sanctuaries usually faced not the sea, but the interior.
- A number of research projects receive support from extramural grants, and researchers in each subdiscipline conduct their own special investigations.
- The one burial of an adult in an extramural pit cannot be temporally related to the house despite its proximal location.
Derivatives![](ac.png) extramurally adverb ...- For three and a half years Mr McLeod studied extramurally with Victoria University, completing his Masters of Public Management.
- I'll be studying extramurally, so I will be working to keep my head above water, and hopefully saving so I can make the move later on.
- Until this time, only heretics, criminals and suicides were regularly buried extramurally, and the change raised fears that distinctions between Lutherans and Catholics would be hopelessly blurred.
Origin![](ac.png) Mid 19th century (in sense 2): from Latin extra muros 'outside the walls' + -al. |