museum

名词 n. 动词 v.
/mjuːˈziːəm/    /mjuˈziəm/|/mjuˈzim/|/mjuˈzæm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
动词 v.
  1. To place in a museum. ambitransitive
    — 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.
  2. To visit museums. colloquial,intransitive
    — I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

词形变化

museums plural musea plural,rare musæum alternative,archaic museums present,singular,third-person museuming participle,present museumed participle,past museumed past musæum alternative,archaic

词源

词源 1
From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.
词源 2
From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.
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