Crossword clues for atheneum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atheneum \Ath`e*ne"um\, Athenaeum \Ath`e*n[ae]"um\, n.; pl. E. Atheneums, L. Athen[ae]a. [L. Athenaeum, Gr. 'Aqhn`aion a temple of Minerva at Athens, fr. 'Aqhna^, contr. fr. 'Aqhna`a, 'Aqhnai`a, in Homer 'Aqh`nh, 'Aqhnai`n, Athene (called Minerva by the Romans), the tutelary goddess of Athens.]
(Gr. Antiq.) A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.
A school founded at Rome by Hadrian.
A literary or scientific association or club.
A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Atheneum, named after the ancient school founded by Roman Emperor Hadrian, is the formal name of the main educational track of Dutch Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs. It is a six-year course and successful completion allows the candidate admission to Dutch university. It differs from its counterpart the Gymnasium in that it does not contain the ancient languages Latin or Greek.
Category:Education in the Netherlands
Usage examples of "atheneum".
There were always plenty of books, and besides those in the house there was the Atheneum Library, which, although not a free library, was very inexpensive to the shareholders.
This school too she gave up for the position of librarian of the Nantucket Atheneum, which office she held for nearly twenty years.
Then I came down to the Atheneum and looked over my comet computations till noon.
I have determined not to spend so much time at the Atheneum another season, but to put some one in my place who shall see the strange faces and hear the strange talk.
The Catholic, a priest, I have known as an Atheneum visitor for some time.
I remembered at once that I had seen two in the library room of the Atheneum, which I had carefully refrained from disturbing.
Now in our little town of Nantucket, with our little Atheneum, these volumes are in constant demand.
So I steadily advocate, in purchasing books for the Atheneum, the lifting of the people.
She received a very small salary for her services in the Atheneum, but small as it was she laid by a little every year.
She took a little journey every year, and could always have little presents ready for the birthdays and Christmas days, and for the necessary books which could not be found in the Atheneum library, and which she felt that she ought to own herself,--all this on a salary which an ordinary school-girl in these days would think too meagre to supply her with dress alone.
For information address: Atheneum Publishers, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York.
There is an Atheneum, and a State Hall, and a fashionable street,--Beacon Street, very like Piccadilly as it runs along the Green Park,--and there is the Green Park opposite to this Piccadilly, called Boston Common.
Then too, the Neapolitan Atheneum has maintained the reputation of the Italian mind in the 19th century, also in that science which even foreign scientists admit to be our specialty, namely the science of criminology.
Long, the assistant county attorney, just back from the Atheneum bank with a pile of paper.
Realty was located on University Avenue just down from the state capital, a block from the Atheneum bank.