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plural athenaeums or athenaea
Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva. examples
An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature. quotations examples
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.
1994 June 3, Michael Miner, “Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process”, in Chicago Reader
(by extension) any reading room or library. quotations examples
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.
1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding
A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum. examples