museum A2 Topic:Culture & History US /mjuˈziəm/ UK /mjuːˈziːəm/ See IPA manual Freq #2836 Meanings 1 noun A building where important objects of art, history, or science are kept and shown to the public. We visited the history museum on our trip to London. Thesaurus Word family Forms museums Common collocations museum curator Noun + noun Etymology AI details From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). *men- (think) Proto-Indo-European mūsēum Latin Μουσεῖον Ancient Greek View etymology graph -> Topics Culture & History External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # museum **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /mjuˈziəm/ **IPA (UK):** /mjuːˈziːəm/ **Frequency rank:** 2836 ## Meanings 1. A building where important objects of art, history, or science are kept and shown to the public. ## Examples - We visited the history museum on our trip to London. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *men- (think) - Root: mūsēum - Root: Μουσεῖον ## Etymology From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). ## AI Etymology Museum comes from Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). In present-day English it covers a building where important objects of art, history, or science are kept and shown to the public. The historical chain runs through *men- (think) (Proto-Indo-European), mūsēum (Latin), and Μουσεῖον (Ancient Greek). ## Topics - Culture & History markdown