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gymnasium

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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gym·na·si·um /dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/ noun (plural gymnasiums or gymnasia) [countable] formal  TBBa gym 体育馆,健身房
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gymnasiumIn a big room that looks like a gymnasium or something.Workshops and gymnasiums, for example, have been added to the main prisons.There are also tennis courts, a bowling green and an air-conditioned gymnasium with a regulation-sized basketball court.In a school gymnasium full of caucus-goers in Des Moines, Dole inadvertently coined the best phrase of this perplexing campaign.The crowd filled the gymnasium at Georgetown Visitation, the Catholic girls' school three blocks from the church.With his share he would be able to get the gymnasium he so badly wanted.Three kilometre to the gymnasium ... Now is shortage of material, I must do all.She never took me to the gymnasium again.
Origin gymnasium (1500-1600) Latin Greek gymnasion, from gymnazein to exercise with no clothes on, from gymnos naked
gym·na·si·um nounChineseSyllable
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gymnasium
gymnasium /dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/ noun (plural gymnasiums or gymnasia) [countable] formal
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: Latin
 Origin: Greek gymnasion, from gymnazein 'to exercise with no clothes on', from gymnos 'naked'
a gym


gym·na·siumBrE /dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/ 🔊NAmE /dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/ 🔊 noun (
plural
gym·na·siums
or
gym·na·sia BrE /dʒɪmˈneɪziə/ 🔊 NAmE /dʒɪmˈneɪziə/ 🔊
)
(formal) = gym (1)