Look up: athenaeum

1. athenaeum
   [n] - a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning 2. [n] - a place where reading materials are available
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2. athenaeum
   Origin: L. Athenaemum, Gr. A temple of Minerva at Athens, fr, contr. Fr, in Homer, Athene (called Minerva by the Romans), the tutelary goddess of Athens. ... 1 A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students. ... 2. A school founde...
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3. athenaeum
   atheneum noun a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning
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4. athenaeum
   atheneum noun a place where reading materials are available
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5. Athenaeum
   • (n.) A school founded at Rome by Hadrian. • (n.) A literary or scientific association or club. • (n.) A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use. • (n.) A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to r...
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6. Athenaeum
   (from the article `publishing, history of`) ...than any of them, was the Westminster Review (1824–1914), started by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill as an organ of the philosophical radicals. Two ... ...a certain resistance to advertising in magazines, in keeping with their literary affinities. When the advertisement tax in Britain wa...
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7. Athenaeum
   The Athenaeum was the temple of Athena or Minerva, at Athens. It was frequented by poets, learned men, and orators. The same name was given at Rome to the school which Hadrian established on the Capitoline Mount for the promotion of literary and scientific studies. In modern times the same name is g...
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8. Athenaeum
   (band) `Athenaeum` was an alternative pop rock<ref name="Rivers" /> four-piece band from Greensboro, North Carolina, USA formed in 1990 at an eighth grade dance by Nic Brown and Mark Kano. Overview : After several personnel changes, Mark Kano and Nic Brown recorded an eight song ...
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9. Athenaeum
   (magazine) The `Athenaeum` was a literary magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. It had a reputation for publishing the very best writers of the age. Launched in 1828 by James Silk Buckingham, it was sold within a few weeks to Frederick Maurice and John Sterling, who failed to...
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10. Athenaeum
    (literary journal) The `Athenaeum` was a literary journal started in 1798 by August Wilhelm and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. It is considered to be the founding publication of German Romanticism. Contributors: Contents: The following is a partial listing of articles in the Athan...
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11. Athenaeum
    (ancient Rome) The `Athenaeum` was a school (ludus) founded by the Emperor Hadrian in Rome, for the promotion of literary and scientific studies (ingenuarum artium) and called Athenaeum from the town of Athens, which was still regarded as the seat of intellectual refinement. The Athena...
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