Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/aθɪˈniːəm/ · noun
Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva..
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.
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.
Use athenaeum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Athenaeum means Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva..
Common synonyms include atheneum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.