museum

• musæum (archaic)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈziːəm/, /mjəˈziːəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mjuˈziəm/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /mjuˈzæm/, [mjuˈzɛəm]

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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.

   visit the history museum

   They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.

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

• “museum, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, May 2022: “Brit. /mjuːˈziːəm/, /mjᵿˈziːəm/, U.S. /mjuˈziəm/”.

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum.

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museum (plural museums)

1. museum

Borrowed from Latin mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

IPA^(key): [muˈsɛːɔm]

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

• Afrikaans: museum
• → Indonesian: museum

From Malay museum borrowing Dutch museum,[1] from Latin museum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

• IPA^(key): [mʊˈsjʊm], [muˈseʊm]
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: mu‧sé‧um

museum (plural museum-museum, first-person possessive museumku, second-person possessive museummu, third-person possessive museumnya)

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

• musium
• muzium (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “museum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːˈseː.um/, [muːˈs̠eːʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈse.um/, [muˈs̬ɛːum]

mūsēum n (genitive mūsēī); second declension

1. a place or temple devoted to the Muses
2. collection, especially a private collection of scientific curiosities, instruments, &c.

   Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum

   The Adolf Friderik Collection

3. library, a collection of books
4. museum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• museum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”). First attested in the Kitab Vortaro published in 1923.[1] Doublet of muzium.

museum (Jawi spelling موسيوم‎, plural museum-museum, informal 1st possessive museumku, 2nd possessive museummu, 3rd possessive museumnya)

1. (Sumatra, Riau) museum: a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

   Synonym: muzium

• muzium (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• musé

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

1. a museum

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

• “museum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• muse, musé

• IPA^(key): /mʉˈseːʉm/

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 (SAOL)

• IPA^(key): /myˈseːəm/

museum n (plural museums or musea, diminutive museumke)

1. museum