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单词 gymnasium
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gymnasium

(dʒɪmneɪziəm)
Word forms: plural gymnasiums, plural gymnasia (dʒɪmneɪziə)
countable noun
A gymnasium is the same as a gym.
[formal]

gymnasium in British English

(dʒɪmˈneɪzɪəm)
nounWord forms: plural -siums or -sia (-zɪə)
1. 
a large room or hall equipped with bars, weights, ropes, etc, for games or physical training
2. 
(in various European countries) a secondary school that prepares pupils for university
Word origin
C16: from Latin: school for gymnastics, from Greek gumnasion, from gumnazein to exercise naked, from gumnos naked

gymnasium in American English

(dʒɪmˈneɪziəm; for 2 gɪmˈnɑziˌʊm)
nounWord forms: plural gymˈnasiums or gymˈnasia (dʒɪmˈneɪziə)
1. 
a room or building equipped for physical training and athletic games and sports
2.  [G-]
in Germany and some other European countries, a secondary school for students preparing to enter a university
Word origin
L < Gr gymnasion, place for exercising < gymnazein, to train naked < gymnos, naked, stripped < IE base *nogw- > naked, L nudus

Examples of 'gymnasium' in a sentence
gymnasium

Those whose homes had been destroyed were provided with camp beds in a school gymnasium.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They camped out on a gymnasium floor and many were unable to sleep because of the snoring of colleagues.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He was perfectly willing to admit us and so we slept that night on the floor of the gymnasium.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
The house is very spacious and has a full-size indoor swimming pool and gymnasium.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
So, they next moved to this gymnasium at this school.
Christianity Today (2000)
He declared from a school gymnasium that America must change.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This was a much better set-up than our original arrangement where we were all cramped into a very small room near the gymnasium.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
The building houses a hotel, bars, swimming pool and gymnasium.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And a German gymnasium has more to do with intellectual than with physical health - it is a grammar school.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
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