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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarymu·se·um \myu̇-ˈzē-əm\ noun ETYMOLOGY Latin Museum place for learned occupation, from Greek Mouseion, from neuter of Mouseios of the Muses, from Mousa DATE 1672: an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value; also : a place where objects are exhibitedEnglish Etymologymuseum 1615, "the university building in Alexandria," from L. museum"library, study," from Gk. mouseion "place of study, library or museum," originally "a seat or shrine of the Muses," from Mousa"Muse."Earliest use in ref. to Eng. institutions was of libraries (e.g.the British Museum); sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1683.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7☞ museummu·seum / mju5zi:Em / noun a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public 博物馆: a museum of modern art 现代艺术博物馆 a science museum 科学博物馆 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishmuseum noun ADJ. excellent, fascinating, great, interesting, major one of the world's great museums | local, municipal, national, provincial, regional, town | private, public | purpose-built | open-air an open-air museum of farming and the countryside | working Although the mill is no longer in commerical use, it is maintained as a working museum. | archaeological, folk, industrial, local history, maritime, military, railway, science, war, etc. VERB + MUSEUM go to, visit MUSEUM + VERB be devoted to sth, contain sth, house sth a museum devoted to railway memorabilia The museum houses a fine collection of textiles. MUSEUM + NOUN building | collection, display, exhibition | piece all the planes are museum pieces | curator, director, staff | visit PREP. at a/the ~ an exhibition of Chinese ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum | in a/the ~ There's a gift shop in the museum. | ~ of the Museum of Modern Art Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedmu·se·um\(ˈ)myü|zēəm, ÷ ˈ ̷ ̷_ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun(-s)Etymology: Latin Museum, from Greek Mouseion, from neuter of Mouseios of the Muses, from Mousa Muse — more at muse1. obsolete : a scholar's library : study < admitted to an audience in his museum — Charles Johnstone >2. a. : an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value < British Museum > < American Museum of Natural History > < National Air and Space Museum > b. : a room, building, or locale where a collection of objects is put on exhibition < art museum > < science museum > < striking outdoor museum, two hundred acres of it — Bernard De Voto > c. : exhibit, collection < the little museum of … lore assembled in the foyer — Claudia Cassidy >3. : something that resembles a museum < the parlor was a museum of Victorian bric-a-brac > < codes are maintained as no mere museums of legal rules and principles — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink >

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