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gymnasium
1[ jim-ney-zee-uhm ]
noun
- a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- a place where Greek youths met for exercise and discussion.
gymnasium
2[ gim-nah-zee-uhm ]
noun
- (often initial capital letter) (in continental Europe, especially Germany) a classical school preparatory to the universities.
gymnasium
/ dʒɪmˈneɪzɪəm /
noun
- a large room or hall equipped with bars, weights, ropes, etc, for games or physical training
- (in various European countries) a secondary school that prepares pupils for university
Other Words From
- gym·nasi·al adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of gymnasium1
Origin of gymnasium2
Word History and Origins
Origin of gymnasium1
Example Sentences
They stormed the gymnasium by land one sunny spring day in 1904.
Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium.
The dining hall, it seemed, had been put to more use than the gymnasium.
Emergency rooms were quickly overwhelmed and the city morgue had to set up a makeshift mortuary in a municipal gymnasium.
“This is not a gymnasium or spectator sport,” Ingram warned.
They entered a large room which combined the characteristics of a library with those of a military gymnasium.
He said he didn't take the watch and chain, that he found them in the gymnasium near the lockers.
Special classes have been opened at the gymnasium for the religious instruction of Jewish pupils.
Soldiers were already stacking up the chairs ready for the clearance of the gymnasium for the morrow.
Smyrna therefore was situated near the present gymnasium, at the back of the present city, but between Tracheia and Lepre Acta.
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