English Explanatory Dictionary

Ashmolean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.
name
  1. Clipping of Ashmolean Museum.

Word forms

Ashmolean the Ashmolean

Etymology

From Ashmole + -an, named after English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), whose gift of his cabinet of curiosities became the basis of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.

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