museum

Noun
US[myoo-zee-uhm]/mjuˈziəm/3 syllablesalso [myoo-zee-uhm] /ˈmjuziəm/

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)museums

  1. a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic valueType of depository, depositKinds science museumExamples Louvre, Hagia Sophia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Mu·se′um noun

Origin: L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. …, fr. … a Muse.

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

Museum beetle, Museum pest. Zoology See Anthrenus.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

museum

Museums on the Web (http://comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html). (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/museums.html).

(1995-03-16)

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