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Definition of Gymnasium
1. Noun. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12.
Generic synonyms: School
Specialized synonyms: Academy, Trade School, Vocational School, High, High School, Highschool, Senior High, Senior High School, Junior High, Junior High School, Prep School, Preparatory School, Public School, Grammar School, Secondary Modern School, Composite School, Comprehensive School
2. Noun. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
Definition of Gymnasium
1. n. A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
Definition of Gymnasium
1. Noun. a large room or building for indoor sports. ¹
2. Noun. a type of secondary school in some countries which typically prepares students for university; preparatory school; college prep school. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gymnasium
1. a gym [n -SIA or -SIUMS] - See also: gym
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnasium
Literary usage of Gymnasium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. National Education in Europe: Being an Account of the Organization by Henry Barnard (1854)
"These certificates are delivered in an assemblage of the students of the gymnasium
with suitable remarks. The certificate of maturity is necessary to enable ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"gymnasium. s legislation tin .... C.' Every gymnasium contained one large room
for the purpose of playing at ball in it (aaat- ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1876)
"THE GERMAN gymnasium. IT is impossible to overestimate the importance of the
place which the gymnasium occupies among German educational institutions. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The gymnasium, the realgymnasium and the ober-realschulen widely differ among
... The chief characteristic of the gymnasium is that Latin is taught ..."
5. Catalogue by North Carolina. University, Newburyport, Newburyport Public library, Public library (1898)
"Memorial Hall is used as the University gymnasium, affording a practically
unlimited supply of air, light and space for all sorts of gymnastic exercises. ..."
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