museum

• musæum (archaic)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈziːəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mjuˈziəm/

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• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /mjuˈzim/, /mjuˈzæm/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːziəm/
• Rhymes: -iːəm

museum (plural museums or musea)

2. 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.

• → Malay: muzium

museum (third-person singular simple present museums, present participle museuming, simple past and past participle museumed)

1. (ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
   • 2013, Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery:

     I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.

   • 2016, Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower, Representing the Nation, page 77:

     Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies.

2. (intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.
   • 2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212:

     I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

• “museum, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: 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
• → Malay: museum
  • Indonesian: museum

Inherited from Malay museum, from 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)

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [muːˈseː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [muˈs̬ɛː.um]

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, etc.

   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^[1]
• “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)

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

   Synonyms: muzium, ajaibkhanah

• 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 Svensk ordbok (SO)
• museum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• museum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /myˈseːəm/

museum n (plural museums or musea, diminutive museumke)