extramural.

1. Situated or occurring beyond the walls or bounds of a city or institution.

2. Conducted beyond an institution’s usual internal programs or attendance.

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• extramural district

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The extramural district lacked the city’s protection.

They met at an extramural burial ground.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.