English Explanatory Dictionary

Mundaneum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An institution created in 1910 that attempted to store and classify the world's knowledge.

Word forms

Mundaneum

Etymology

From a New Latin term coined by the institution's founders; by surface analysis, mundan(us) + -eum, reflecting their cosmopolitan (internationalist and supranational) aspirations.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary