Crossword clues for smithsonian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smithsonian \Smith*so"ni*an\ (-s[=o]"n[i^]*an), a. Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n. The Smithsonian Institution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Smithsonian Institute," named for English scientist and philanthropist James Smithson (1765-1829), who left a legacy to the U.S. government to found it. The mineral smithsonite also is named for him.
Wikipedia
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
Smithsonian can refer to:
- the Smithsonian Institution, a museum in Washington, D.C.
- the Smithsonian Institution Building
- Smithsonian (magazine), a magazine published by the Institution
- Smithsonian Channel, television channel
- Smithsonian (Washington Metro), a station of the Washington Metro approximate to the Institution
- The Smithsonian Institution, a novel by Gore Vidal
- 3773 Smithsonian, an asteroid
- Smithsonian Agreement
Usage examples of "smithsonian".
Louis hanging like a paralyzed moth in the Smithsonian, and wondered how a cornhusker city–"without a single good college in it," his mother sniffed–could flap wings and scoot aloft.
A guided tour of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Later he worked for the Smithsonian and was instrumental in creating the National Air Museum.
Their house, a kind of southwestern religious Smithsonian Institution, was crammed full of bultos and retablos, carved saints and painted saints, bleeding saints and saints wearing little cloth capes on which roses and moons and stars were embroidered, and saints carrying silk shoulder pouches, and saints with angels driving their plows through the earth behind them, and saints with gourds full of sacred water and baskets overbrimming with sacred bread--they had santos in their household like most of Milagro's dogs had fleas!
I find that the report of the Smithsonian Institute gives the average annual rainfall in the section around Andersonville, at fifty-six inches- --nearly five feet--while that of foggy England is only thirty-two.