museum

• musæum (archaic)

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈziːəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mjuˈzi.əm/, IPA^(key): /mjuˈzæːm/

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• Rhymes: -iːəm

museum (plural museums or musea)

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

The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.

• museography
• museology
• museophile
• museum beetle
• museum pest

• open-air museum

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum.

museum (plural museums)

1. museum

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museer, definite plural museerne)

1. museum

• “museum” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin museum.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmyˈzeː.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: mu‧se‧um

museum n (plural musea or museums, diminutive museumpje n)

1. museum

• museaal
• museumstuk
• rijksmuseum

• Afrikaans: museum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːˈseː.um/, [muːˈseː.ũ]

mūsēum n (genitive mūsēī); second declension

1. museum

Second declension.

• museum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• museum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• museum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• museum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• musé

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museer, definite plural musea or museene)

1. a museum

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

• “museum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• musé

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museum, definite plural musea)

1. a museum

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

• “museum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin museum

• IPA^(key): /mɵˈseːˌɵm/

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museum n

1. a museum

As the first part of a compound, the form musei- is used.

• museum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)