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Word: Museum
Speech Type: Noun
early 17th century (denoting a university building, specifically one erected at Alexandria by Ptolemy Soter): via Latin from Greek mouseion ‘seat of the Muses’, based on mousa ‘muse’
mjuːˈziːəm
mjʊˈziːəm
a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited
Short Definition:building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited
Examples:- the Museum of Modern Art
- the museum is noted for its fine fossil collection
- a museum curator
- it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the city is now a living museum
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