Usually means: Institution preserving, displaying cultural artifacts.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word museum:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. museum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. museum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. museum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. museum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. museum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Museum, Museum, museum: Wordnik
  7. museum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. museum: Wiktionary
  9. museum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. museum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. museum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Museum, museum: Dictionary.com
  13. museum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. museum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MUSEUM, Museum (Ball Park Music album), Museum (Mike Tramp album), Museum (TV series), Museum (disambiguation), Museum (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. museum: Rhymezone
  17. Museum (nt), museum, museum (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. museum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. museum: Free Dictionary
  20. museum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. museum: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Museum, The Museum (band), .museum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Museum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. museum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. museum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Museum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. museum: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. museum: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. .museum: Encyclopedia
  3. museum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MUSEUM: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Museum: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Museum: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. museum: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To place in a museum.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.

Similar:
exhibition, gallery, curator, exhibit, museology, museography, docent, exploratorium, planetarium, Smithsonian, more...

Opposite:
amusement, park, playground, nightclub, shopping, mall, sports, stadium

Types:
art museum, history museum, science museum, children's museum, aviation museum, maritime museum, war museum, technology museum, more...

Phrases:
British Museum, Art museum, metropolitan museum, science museum, Whitney Museum, more...

Adjectives:
small, new, local, national, natural, historical, british, courtesy, little, public, archaeological

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     burgundy,     olive,     charcoal, more...


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Similar:
exhibition, gallery, curator, exhibit, museology, museography, docent, exploratorium, planetarium, Smithsonian, more...

Opposite:
amusement, park, playground, nightclub, shopping, mall, sports, stadium

Types:
art museum, history museum, science museum, children's museum, aviation museum, maritime museum, war museum, technology museum, more...

Phrases:
British Museum, Art museum, metropolitan museum, science museum, Whitney Museum, guggenheim museum, Brooklyn Museum, field museum, Palace Museum, getty museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, wax museum, museum piece, more...

Adjectives:
small, new, local, national, natural, historical, british, courtesy, little, public, archaeological

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     burgundy,     olive,     charcoal, more...



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