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/dʒɪmnˈeɪziəm/ Listen

noun

Gymnasium n. (pl. E. gymnasiums, L. gymnasia)

A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; used esp. of German schools of this kind. "More like ordinary schools of gymnasia than universities."

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Etymology of 'Gymnasium'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gymnasium" Quotes from Famous Books

... founded in Vienna for the encouragement of Grecian literature. It was connected with a similar institution at Athens, and another in Thessaly, called the "Gymnasium of Mount Pelion." The treasury and general office of the institution were established at Munich. No political object was avowed by these institutions, probably none contemplated. Still, however, they had their effect, no doubt, in hastening that condition of things in which ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... But those dumb-bells of yours wouldn't give a consumptive two degrees of fever. I mean real exercise. You've got to join a gymnasium. 'Member you told me you were such a trick gymnast once that they tried to get you out for the team in college and they couldn't because you had a standing date ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... I want to make a suggestion, Mr. Nelson, and hope you will not misunderstand me. Will you accept an endowment for the establishment of a sort of club here in Toronto, where bankclerks can congregate, have a library, a gymnasium, and recreation of every kind? I am president of a loan company, and if you will not accept a donation, you will at least accept a loan ...

— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen

... was no longer instructor. She had resigned her position the previous June and passed on to other fields. Her successor, Miss Davis, had ideas of her own on the subject of basket ball and no sooner had she set foot in the gymnasium than she proceeded to put them into effect. Instead of picking one team from the freshman and sophomore classes, she selected two from each class. Then she organized a series of practice games to determine which of the ...

— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... entrance; a library and reading-room open to both sexes, well stored with books, and made beautiful by pictures; three or four smaller rooms to serve as committee rooms and for the purposes of the Naturalist Club which had been started in May on the Murewell plan; and, if possible, a gymnasium. ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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