Definitions for Museum
myuˈzi əmMu·se·um

Princeton's WordNet(4.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. museumnoun

   a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

Wiktionary(4.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. museumnoun

   A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Museumnoun

   A repository of learned curiosities.

   Etymology: μουσεῖον.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Museumnoun

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

2. Etymology: [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. , fr. a Muse.]

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1. Museum

   A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums to expand to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, study, and exploration from any place with Internet. The city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Museum

   mū-zē′um, n. a collection of natural, scientific, or other curiosities, or of works of art.—ns. Museol′ogy, the science of arranging—Museog′raphy, of describing, museums. [L.,—Gr. mouseion; cf. Muse.]

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1. museum

   The museum symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the museum symbol and its characteristic.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1490

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4120

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Nouns Frequency: #580

How to pronounce Museum?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Museum in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Museum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Museum in a Sentence

1. Mohamed Ali:

   There were police on one side of the bus that they set upon, and the terrorists were hiding on the other side, there was an exchange of fire, and the gunmen took refuge in the museum.

2. Matthew Vadum:

   The Cosby art collection displayed in the National Museum of African Art serves as part of this man's public relations offensive while the public battle over his misdeeds rages, it is unseemly for the taxpayers who fund the museum to be forced to play a role in rehabilitating Cosby's image.

3. Elizabeth Liz Hurley:

   I know it’s been in places like the Metropolitan Museum of New York and it’s been in the [Victoria and Albert] museum here [in England], i think it’s been on a world tour.

4. David Pilgrim:

   There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores.

5. Mellody Hobson:

   As an African-American who has spent my entire life in this city I love, it saddens me that young black and brown children will be denied the chance to benefit from what this museum will offer.

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