museum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mu=se=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

museum, n. [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. , fr. a Muse.].

 A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.  [1913 Webster]

Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

museum, n. a building used for storing and exhibiting objects of historical, scientific, or cultural interest.

Idiom

museum piece
1 a specimen of art etc. fit for a museum.
2 derog. an old-fashioned or quaint person or object.

Derivative

museology n.

Etymology

L f. Gk mouseion seat of the Muses: see MUSE(1)

THESAURUS

museum

British Museum, Festschrift, Guggenheim Museum, Hermitage, Indian reservation, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery, Prado, Rijksmuseum, Tate Gallery, Uffizi, ana, anthology, aquarium, archives, art gallery, bank, bird sanctuary, body, chrestomathy, collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, curatorship, data, florilegium, forest preserve, fund, gallery, game reserve, holdings, library, menagerie, museology, national forest, national park, paradise, park, picture gallery, pinacotheca, preserve, raw data, reservation, reserve, salon, sanctuary, state forest, store, treasure, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, zoo

ROGET THESAURUS

museum

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.