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musæum

musæum is the archaic spelling of museum.

Meaning of museum

Noun

museum (plural museums or (rare) musea)

  1. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
    • visit the history museum

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Forms of musæum

pluralmusæums
pluralmusæa

Origin of musæum

From the Latin mūsaeum, variant form of mūsēum, whence the English museum.

Questions about musæum

What is musæum the archaic spelling of?
Musæum is the archaic spelling of museum.

Words near musæum in the dictionary

  1. Muswell Hill
  2. Muswellbrook
  3. Muszynski
  4. Muszynskis
  5. musæa
  6. musæum
  7. musæums
  8. mut
  9. mut'ah
  10. mut'ahs
  11. mut.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musæum (page history and authors); museum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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