Gymnasium: Definition and part of speech

Gymnasium

  1. n. A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; — used esp. of German schools of this kind.
  2. n. A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

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.

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