Gymnasium
[dʒɪm'neɪzɪəm] or [dʒɪm'nezɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
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Definition
(n.) A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
(n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Place for athletic exercises.[2]. School, seminary, academy, high-school.
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Definition
n. a school for gymnastics: a school for the higher branches of literature and science: (orig.) a public place or building where the Greek youths exercised themselves with running and wrestling grounds baths and halls for conversation:—pl. Gymnā′sia.—adj. Gymnā′sial.—n. Gymnā′siast.—adj. Gymnā′sic.—n. Gym′nast one who teaches or practises gymnastics.—adjs. Gymnas′tic -al pertaining to athletic exercises: athletic vigorous.—adv. Gymnas′tically.—n.pl. used as sing. Gymnas′tics athletic exercises devised to strengthen the muscles and bones esp. those of the upper half of the body: the art of performing athletic exercises.—adj. Gym′nic (Milt.).
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I went to a gymnasium in the arcade to box for exercise. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose with those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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