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odditorium

odditorium noun: a shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.

Noun

odditorium (plural odditoriums)

  1. A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.
    • […] and we found passageways with queer, quaint gables, and in a draper's shop, and in constant daily use, we came upon an ancient and beautiful oak staircase really fit for a palace, and we happened upon an "odditorium," […]1917, Robert Shackleton, Touring Great Britain, page 182
    • Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago.1998, Robert Abelman, Reaching a critical mass, page 39

Examples of odditorium in a sentence

  • Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.2002, Christopher Shultz, David L. Sloan, Quit Your Job and Move to Key West: The Complete Guide, page 55:
  • His shop had been an odditorium, its crowding walls filled to the ceiling with unfathomable, strangely charismatic products like Bay Rum and styptic pencils that would seal up cuts […].2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 27:

Forms of odditorium

pluralodditoriums

Origin of odditorium

Blend of odd + auditorium; mainly used by the franchise of Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

Questions about odditorium

What does odditorium mean?
Odditorium means a shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.
How do you use odditorium in a sentence?
Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.
What part of speech is odditorium?
Odditorium is a noun.
What is the plural of odditorium?
The plural of odditorium is odditoriums.

Words near odditorium in the dictionary

  1. oddifying
  2. Oddingley
  3. Oddington
  4. oddish
  5. oddities
  6. odditorium
  7. odditoriums
  8. oddity
  9. oddity effect
  10. oddity effects
  11. oddjob

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