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{
"term": "museum",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"image": "data/images/ci/city.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public",
"sensetop": "at/in a museum",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a museum of modern art"
},
{
"text": "a science museum"
},
{
"text": "They **visited museums** and galleries throughout the city."
},
{
"text": "He's the director of a new museum."
},
{
"text": "The items will go on display at the museum next year.",
"contextForm": "at/in a museum"
},
{
"text": "a museum director/curator"
},
{
"text": "Her prints are in major museum collections."
},
{
"text": "He founded a museum of modern art in his home town."
},
{
"text": "Although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum."
},
{
"text": "Los Angeles County Art Museum"
},
{
"text": "The first painting acquired by the museum was by Hopper."
},
{
"text": "The museum's collection includes a broad range of furniture, textiles and jewellery."
},
{
"text": "The museum houses a fine collection of textiles."
},
{
"text": "The museum is housed in a converted church."
},
{
"text": "The website's print gallery is a virtual museum."
},
{
"text": "There's a gift shop in the museum."
},
{
"text": "a museum devoted to children's toys"
},
{
"text": "an exhibition of Chinese ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum"
},
{
"text": "an open-air museum of farming and the countryside"
},
{
"text": "one of the world's great museums"
}
],
"topics": ["Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["excellent", "fascinating", "great"],
"verb + museum": ["go to", "visit", "tour"],
"museum + verb": [
"open",
"be dedicated to somebody/something",
"be devoted to something"
],
"museum + noun": ["building", "complex", "gallery"],
"preposition": ["at a/the museum", "in a/the museum", "museum of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mjuˈziːəm/",
"audio": "mu/museum/museum__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mjuˈziːəm/",
"audio": "mu/museum/museum__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (denoting a university building, specifically one erected at Alexandria by Ptolemy Soter): via Latin from Greek mouseion ‘seat of the Muses’, based on mousa ‘muse’."
}