museum : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: museum	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for museum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
museum n a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Museum \Muse"um\, 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. {Museum* beetle}, {Museum pest}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Anthrenus}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
museum {Museums on the Web (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html)}. {(http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/museums.html)}. (1995-03-16)