Definitions for museum

museum mu·se·um

Spelling: [myoo-zee-uh m]
IPA: /myuˈzi əm/

Museum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in museum (emmsuu).

Definitions for museum

noun

  1. a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.

Origin of museum

1605-15; Latin mūsēum place sacred to the Muses, building devoted to learning or the arts (referring especially to the scholarly institute founded in Alexandria about 280 b.c.) Greek Mouseîon

Examples for museum

Prado was the first name I recognized here since I used to live a few blocks from the Prado museum in Madrid when I was 20.

The British museum, indeed, was another of Esmond's birthplaces.

The museum, as a public institution, must answer these questions.

You did not see, then, what Miss Delacour says of the lady who took her to that museum?

And now it is in a museum in Paris, far from its old owner's home.

There also was the museum or university, in which many learned men were at work.

The question implicit in this effort, “If you were starting a museum, what would you put in your collection?”

Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

The British museum claims that “cultural diplomacy” can somehow discourage human rights violators.

You will find it in the museum, "I hae been at Crookie-den," etc.

Word Value for museum
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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