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musea

musea is the plural 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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Origin of musea

From Latin musea; by surface analysis, muse(um) + -a.

Questions about musea

What is musea the plural of?
Musea is the plural of museum.

Words near musea in the dictionary

  1. muscuranic
  2. MUSD
  3. muse
  4. muse-bouche
  5. muse-bouches
  6. musea
  7. museal
  8. musealisation
  9. musealist
  10. musealists
  11. museality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musea (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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