athenaeum

IPA(Pronunciation)

/aθɪˈniːəm/

Noun

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Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva. / An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.

Japanese Meaning

アテナまたはローマの女神ミネルヴァを主祭神とする神殿 / 科学や文学などの学問の発展を目的とする協会

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Tourists lingered on the steps of the ancient athenaeum, imagining priests tending the altar to the goddess.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

観光客たちは古代のアテナに捧げられた神殿の階段にとどまり、祭司が女神の祭壇を整える様子を想像した。

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Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva.

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An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.

A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names.

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The reading room or library of such an association; (by extension) any reading room or library.

And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine.

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Sense（4）

A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum.

athenaeums

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athenaea

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