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museum piece

museum piece noun: an item worthy of being kept by a museum.

Noun

museum piece (plural museum pieces)

  1. An item worthy of being kept by a museum.
    • These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days.1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660
  2. (slang) A very old item, especially an obsolete piece of technology.
    • Jim's car is a real museum piece.
    • A Sinclair Spectrum computer is now just a museum piece.

Forms of museum piece

pluralmuseum pieces

Origin of museum piece

Referring to the preservation of historic artifacts in museums.

Questions about museum piece

What does museum piece mean?
Museum piece means an item worthy of being kept by a museum.
What part of speech is museum piece?
Museum piece is a noun.
What is the plural of museum piece?
The plural of museum piece is museum pieces.

Words near museum piece in the dictionary

  1. musettes
  2. musetto
  3. museum
  4. museum beetle
  5. museum beetles
  6. museum piece
  7. museum pieces
  8. museum problem
  9. museum problems
  10. museum restoration
  11. museum-goer

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