different between cabinet vs museum

English

Etymology

From cabin +? -et, influenced by French cabinet.In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ.b?.n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ.b?.n?t/, /?kæb.n?t/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?kæ.b?.n?t/, /?kæb.n?t/

Noun

cabinet (plural cabinets)

1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. A cupboard.
3. The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
4. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,

     Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”

5. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
6. (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
   1. (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
7. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.

8. (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
9. (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
   • 2012, Linda Beaulieu, Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook: Big Recipes from the Smallest State, p. 268:

     One of Rhode Island's most famous beverages is the Awful Awful, an enormous 32-ounce, rich, creamy milk shake sold at the Newport Creamery stores, a soda fountain and casual restaurant chain. This ultra-thick cabinet is "awful big and awful good," thus the name.

10. (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.

    • Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, / The rural song of careful Colinet.

11. An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

Synonyms

• (cabinet-level agency in the executive branch): cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet (rare), superagency (California)

Derived terms

• cabinet agency
• cabinet department
• kitchen cabinet
• program cabinet
• war cabinet

Translations

See also

• animal cabinet
• armoire
• salon

Anagrams

• bacinet

French

Etymology

From cabine +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bi.n?/

Noun

cabinet m (plural cabinets)

1. (archaic) a study
2. an office, a surgery
3. a cabinet
4. a cabinet of government advisors
5. (in the plural) the toilet, lavatory

Derived terms

• cabinet médical
• chef de cabinet

Descendants

• ? Dutch: kabinet
  • ? Indonesian: kabinet
• ? English: cabinet
• ? Georgian: ???????? (?abine?i)
• ? German: Kabinett
  • ? Hungarian: kabinet
  • ? Russian: ???????? (kabinét)
    • ? Ukrainian: ???????? (kabinét)
• ? Persian: ??????? (kâbine)
  • ? Hindi: ?????? (k?b?n?)
  • ? Urdu: ??????? (kábína)

Further reading

• “cabinet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French cabinet.

Noun

cabinet n (plural cabinete)

1. cabinet

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• musæum (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin m?s?um (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (????? (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mju??zi??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mju?zi.?m/, /mju?zæ?m/
• Rhymes: -i??m

Noun

museum (plural museums or musea)

1. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Usage notes

The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.

Derived terms

• open-air museum

Related terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum.

Noun

museum (plural [please provide])|museums

1. museum

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin m?s?um from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”), derived from ????? (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mu?s???m]

Noun

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museer, definite plural museerne)

1. museum

Declension

References

• “museum” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin museum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?my?ze?.?m/
• Hyphenation: mu?se?um

Noun

museum n (plural musea or museums, diminutive museumpje n)

1. museum

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: museum
• ? Indonesian: museum

d

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m??sj?m], [mu?se?m]
• Hyphenation: mu?sé?um

Noun

museum (plural museum-museum, first-person possessive museumku, second-person possessive museummu, third-person possessive museumnya)

1. museum: a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Alternative forms

• musium
• muzium (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “museum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mu??se?.um/, [mu??s?e????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mu?se.um/, [mu?s???um]

Noun

m?s?um n (genitive m?s??); second declension

1. museum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• museum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• museum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• museum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• museum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• musé

Noun

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museer, definite plural musea or museene)

1. a museum

Derived terms

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

References

• “museum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• muse, musé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??se??m/

Noun

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museum, definite plural musea)

1. a museum

Derived terms

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

References

• “museum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin museum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??se???m/

Noun

museum n

1. a museum

Usage notes

As the first part of a compound, the form musei- is used.

Declension

Related terms

References

• museum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my?se??m/

Noun

museum n (plural museums or musea, diminutive museumke)

1. museum