athenaeum
IPA: æθʌnˈiʌm
noun
- An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.
- The reading room or library of such an association; (by extension) any reading room or library.
- A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum.
- (Ancient Greece) A temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva, especially that of Athens.
- Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva. [(Ancient Greece) A temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva, especially that of Athens.]
- Alternative form of athenaeum: a literary or scientific club, especially that of Boston. [An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.]
- Alternative form of athenaeum: the reading room or library of such clubs, especially the London Athenaeum Club. [An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.]
- Alternative form of athenaeum: a literary or scientific periodical, especially the London Athenaeum. [An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.]
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Examples of "athenaeum" in Sentences
- RICHARDSON: Widener is the big library at Harvard -- that or the Boston athenaeum, which has many of the books that Emerson himself looked at.
- He tried to instill Arts & Letters Daily with the atmosphere of a Victorian reading room or an athenaeum — a place for reading and thinking, free from distractions.
- He offered him a whole square next to that where the college, the courthouse, the church, the library, the athenaeum, and all the public buildings were situated ....
- Thence passing to the athenaeum illustre (high school), he continued for four years his classical studies under the celebrated Professor Jakob van Lennep with the greatest success.
- Besides numerous other places of worship, there are a handsome town hall, athenaeum and museum, art gallery and public library, various assembly rooms, and several recreation grounds.
- I know this athenaeum well, I esteem and have affection for the students who study there: On several occasions every year many of them come to meet me in the Vatican, together with their colleagues from other universities.
- It was a profound reflection, as he did last Sunday before the Angelus prayer, Benedict XVI reiterated the substance of what he had already said: everything took place in an athenaeum, and hence in language that would be employed for a university lecture.
- In the first years of settlement, the twenty-five founding families had worked together to construct the buildings of the Commons: the self-reliance school, athenaeum, communion lodge, town hall and Littleton's first exchange, where goods and services could be bought or bartered.
- The guerrilla athenaeum, which appeared this spring at the intersection of Leonard and Withers streets in Williamsburg, has clapboard siding and sits on a hand truck chained to a one-way street sign—a clever skirting of city regulation by its founder, 31-year-old artist Colin McMullan .
- Everything that has been done in any other athenaeum, I confidently expect to see done here; and when that shall be the case, and when there shall be great cheap schools in connexion with the institution, and when it has bound together for ever all its friends, and brought over to itself all those who look upon it as an objectionable institution, — then, and not till then, I hope the young men of
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