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(museums) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A museum is a building where a large number of interesting and valuable objects, such as works of art or historical items, are kept, studied, and displayed to the public. For months Malcolm had wanted to visit the Parisian art museums. ...the American Museum of Natural History. N-COUNT
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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 exhibited ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. a building used for storing and exhibiting objects of historical, scientific, or cultural interest. Phrases and idioms museum piece 1 a specimen of art etc. fit for a museum. 2 derog. an old-fashioned or quaint person or object. Derivatives museology n. Etymology: L f. Gk mouseion seat of the Muses: see MUSE(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n a building where important cultural, historical, or scientific objects are kept and shown to the public (the Museum of Modern Art) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1615, 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 Eng. use was of libraries; sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1683. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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