Athenaeum

1. n. A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.
2. n. A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.
3. n. A school founded at Rome by Hadrian.
4. n. A literary or scientific association or club.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.