GYMNASIUM (gymnasia)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: gymnasia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gymnasium mean? 

• GYMNASIUM (noun)
  The noun GYMNASIUM has 2 senses:

1. a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

2. athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training

  Familiarity information: GYMNASIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYMNASIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school

Hypernyms ("Gymnasium" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gymnasium"):

academy (a secondary school (usually private))

trade school; vocational school (a secondary school teaching the skilled trades)

high; high school; highschool; senior high; senior high school (a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12)

junior high; junior high school (a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades)

prep school; preparatory school (a private secondary school)

public school (private independent secondary school in Great Britain supported by endowment and tuition)

grammar school (a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college)

secondary modern school (a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education)

composite school; comprehensive school (a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gym; gymnasium

Hypernyms ("gymnasium" is a kind of...):

athletic facility (a facility for athletic events)

 Context examples 

Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)