Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "wax museum" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF WAX MUSEUM

wax museum  [wæks mjuːˈziːəm] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAX MUSEUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wax museum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAX MUSEUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wax museum

Wax museum

A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubbed the 'chamber of horrors' in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Some collections are more specialized, as for example collections of wax medical models once used for training medical professionals. Many museums or displays in historical houses that are not wax museums as such use wax figures as part of their displays. The origin of wax museums goes back to the early 18th century at least, and wax funeral effigies of royalty and some other figures exhibited by their tombs had essentially been tourist attractions well before that.

Definition of wax museum in the English dictionary

The definition of wax museum in the dictionary is a museum displaying wax statues of famous people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAX MUSEUM


athenaeum
ˌæθɪˈniːəm
Atheneum
ˌæθɪˈniːəm
gastraeum
ɡæsˈtriːəm
geum
ˈdʒiːəm
gynaeceum
ˌdʒaɪnɪˈsiːəm
hypogeum
ˌhaɪpəˈdʒiːəm
notaeum
nəʊˈtiːəm
nymphaeum
nɪmˈfiːəm
ommateum
ˌɒməˈtiːəm
perineum
ˌpɛrɪˈniːəm
peritonaeum
ˌperɪtəˈniːəm
peritoneum
ˌpɛrɪtəˈniːəm
pium
ˈpiːəm
proctodaeum
ˌprɒktəˈdiːəm
proctodeum
ˌprɒktəʊˈdiːəm
propylaeum
ˌprɒpɪˈliːəm
prytaneum
ˌprɪtəˈniːəm
stomatodaeum
stəˌmætəˈdiːəm
stomodaeum
ˌstəʊməˈdiːəm
stomodeum
ˌstəʊməˈdiːəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAX MUSEUM

wax
wax bean
wax cap
wax flower
wax insect
wax light
wax moth
wax myrtle
wax palm
wax paper
wax tree
waxable
waxberries
waxberry
waxbill
waxcloth
waxed cotton
waxed jacket
waxed paper
waxen

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAX MUSEUM

Ashmolean Museum
British Museum
coliseum
colosseum
Fitzwilliam Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Imperial War Museum
museum
Pitt-Rivers Museum
Rijksmuseum
Science Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum

Synonyms and antonyms of wax museum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wax museum» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF WAX MUSEUM

Find out the translation of wax museum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wax museum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wax museum» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蜡像馆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

museo de cera
570 millions of speakers

English

wax museum
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोम संग्रहालय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متحف الشمع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

музей восковых фигур
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

museu de cera
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোম জাদুঘর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

musée de cire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Muzium lilin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wachsmuseum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ろう人形館
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

왁스 박물관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lilin museum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bảo tàng sáp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெழுகு அருங்காட்சியகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोम संग्रहालय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

balmumu Müzesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

museo delle cere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

muzeum figur woskowych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

музей воскових фігур
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muzeu de ceară
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μουσείο κέρινων ομοιωμάτων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

was museum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vax museum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

voksmuseum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wax museum

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAX MUSEUM»

The term «wax museum» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.896 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
78
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «wax museum» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of wax museum
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «wax museum».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAX MUSEUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wax museum» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wax museum» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wax museum

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAX MUSEUM»

Discover the use of wax museum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wax museum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Washington Wax Museum
In Seattle, Washington, Rachel Baker's class wins a field trip to a wax museum that turns into a nightmare when she and her friend, David Rydell, begin to realize that all is not what it appears to be.
Johnathan Rand, 2006
2
Gygb #12 Welcome To The Wicked Wax Museum
Reader experiences the adventures of visiting a wax museum, where things are not what they seem. Use the clues and decide your own fate.
R. L. Stine, 1996
3
The Berenstain Bears in the wax museum
Brother Bear and his friend Fred get more excitement than they had hoped for when they become involved in the efforts to build an entertainment complex including a wax museum in Beartown.
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, 1999
4
Mystery of the wax museum
At Warner Brothers, the main entry was Mystery of the Wax Museum, directed by Michael Curtiz, a grand thriller of 1933 in which Fay Wray (Who would appear opposite Kong later that same year) was threatened with waxy immortality by the ...
Richard Koszarski, 1979
5
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
risian institution of commercial entertainment opened during the end of the last century. Why did this wax museum capture the public imagination in late nineteenth-century Paris? A cartoonist depicting the opening of the wax museum gives us ...
Vanessa R. Schwartz, 1997
6
Waxworks: A Cultural Obsession
Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud.
Michelle E. Bloom, 2003
7
Monstrous Imagination
While portraiture, as dramatized in the literature of the period, was defined as a specifically masculine art, what obscure ties link the female to the Wax Museum or to the "embryo" of the Chamber of the Dead? Madame Tussaud did not invent  ...
Marie Hélène Huet, 1993
8
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture
National Great Blacks in Wax Museum can also be viewed as an attempt to provoke memories of the past for those living in the present. Alison Landsb erg's essay on the “radical politics of empathy” in the United States Holocaust Memorial ...
Lisa Woolfork, 2008
9
Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and ...
(The backroom glimpse of mannequins in their unconsolidated state, or depicted as an undifferen- tiated vat of bubbling melted wax, is in fact a stock scene of wax -museum horror films.)16 Such behind-the-scenes views of mannequin ...
Mark B. Sandberg, 2003
10
Congressional Record, V. 149, PT. 13, July 8, 2003 to July ...
147, S. 1233. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1233) to authorize assistance for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum and Justice Learning Center.
U S Congress, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAX MUSEUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wax museum is used in the context of the following news items.
1
YouTube's Jenna Marbles from Brighton makes wax museum
Jenna Mourey, a Brighton High School graduate, is one of the most recognized people on social media in the United States. Followers and non-followers soon ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls epic prank at wax museum in Hollywood
The action movie icon dressed up as his iconic “Terminator” character and posed as a wax figure at the Madame Tussauds museum in Hollywood. As tourists ... «MSNBC, Jun 15»
3
Laverne Cox cast as wax museum's first transgender figure
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Actress Laverne Cox is being cast as the first transgender person with a wax figure at a Madame Tussauds museum. «Washington Times, Jun 15»
4
Pitbull becomes next Madame Tussauds wax figure
Pitbull becomes next Madame Tussauds wax figure ... Rap artist Pitbull reacts after his wax double is revealed at Madame Tussauds Orlando wax museum at ... «Orlando Sentinel, May 15»
5
No lightsabers were used to carve these Star Wars wax figures
Now, in a gallery far, far away (well, London), the wax museum has produced 11 famous sets featuring 16 Star Wars characters. And a new video shows the ... «Cult of Mac, May 15»
6
Obi-Wax Kenobi: 'Star Wars' stars join London wax museum
London (AFP) - Heroes and villains from a galaxy far, far away have flown into Madame Tussauds wax museum in London for a new "Star Wars" exhibition, ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
7
One Direction Fans Will Find Comfort In 'Tissue Attendant' At …
One Direction fans can now find comfort in the new tissue attendant at Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. That means they can now cry over the news ... «The Inquisitr, Apr 15»
8
Madame Tussauds: Jimmy Fallon in Orlando lineup
Look for them at Madame Tussauds wax museums in New York, Los Angeles, ... Talk-show host Jimmy Fallon will be immortalized with a wax figure at Madame ... «Orlando Sentinel, Mar 15»
9
Preview of Madame Tussauds wax museum 'Star Wars' exhibit
Wax museum Madame Tussauds in London has announced it will open a ... Today, museum artists gave a behind-the-scenes look at the meticulous work going ... «WPTV.com, Mar 15»
10
'Wrecking Ball' Miley statue coming to Tussauds wax museum
The wax figure, of course, will be on display for the hotel's Madame Tussauds Las Vegas museum, which my 20-something niece just visited with her fiance. «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wax museum [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wax-museum>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z