Ashmolean
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- proper noun
- Visitors from around the world come to see the impressive collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
- Ashmolean Museum
- Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Examples
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There were only two sources for this image available to Auden in 1947: the painting itself, which was in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a copy in Samuel Ireland's Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, published in the 1790s.
Academic text (1996) -
But she can list every painting in the Ashmolean.
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"And spent all of your time in the glass collections at the Ashmolean and the British Museum."
Fiction book (1998) -
About four o'clock, she would visit the Ashmolean Museum to spend one hour there.
Academic text (2003) -
A landscape painting, Lake in the Rain (in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford), evinces Binyon's tie with another towering Nihonga master, Yokoyama Taikan.
Academic text (2005) -
The Ashmolean Museum features an extensive range of artifacts from ancient civilizations.
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Every year, the Ashmolean Museum hosts several exhibitions showcasing modern art.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Ashmolean = Ashmole (semi-transparent) = Ashmole + ean
The museum name is derived from the surname plus the name-forming suffix '-ean'; the morphological relation is clear but the referent is a specific institution rather than a compositional meaning.
Etymology
Ashmolean is the name of the famous museum in Oxford and it comes from the collector Elias Ashmole, who gave his collection to the university long ago. That's why the Ashmolean is the museum itself and why people use this name for its art and objects.