HOW TO PRONOUNCE
museum
/mjuˈziəm/
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Stress ZEE in myoo-ZEE-um.
Use a voiced z and a light final vowel. Another stress pattern is listed.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The museum opens at ten.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does museum mean?
noun
- A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
verb
- To place in a museum.
- To visit museums.
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proper noun
- Alternative form of the Mouseion
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IPA pronunciation
/mjuˈziəm/
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One of their cuirasses, pierced on the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the Waterloo Museum.
The others swarmed over the park, now around the swings, now in the Casino, now in the museum, now invading the merry-go-round.
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To dream of a museum, denotes you will pass through many and varied scenes in striving for what appears your rightful position.
Returning to the Museum, Barnum directed that his original order concerning the disposition of the flags be carried out to the letter.
Under his successors, particularly the third Ptolemy, the museum developed, more especially the library, which contained more than half a million volumes.