Getty
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- proper noun
- /ˈɡɛti/
- Informal
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Getty
- I would like to thank my colleagues at the Getty Research Institute for their friendship and intelligence.
- Getty Center
- Getty Museum
- Getty Research Institute
What we're looking at is the most beautiful oil painting on loan to us by the Getty Museum, California, showing the adoration of the Magi.
- What we're looking at is the most beautiful oil painting on loan to us by the Getty Museum, California, showing the adoration of the Magi.
- I've gone to the Getty several times, both Villas and Gondolakma.
- I've gone to the Getty several times, both villas and gone to LACMA.
- I had a meeting in Richard Meyer's office and Richard Meyer had been in that thing for seven years doing this Getty Center.
Examples
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Most of the schools selected had participated in DBAE institutes during the earlier project sponsored by the Getty Education Institute.
Academic text (2000) -
Getty curator Claire Lyons feels it is time to look past Augustus and Alice's eccentricities.
Academic text (2007) -
Unless you happened to work here, it was the only way to enter the Getty.
Fiction book (2001) -
Among those, the Getty had invited me to L.A. as a research scholar.
Blog text (18) -
Ally and Teddy go to the Getty.
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The Getty Education Institute and the Annenberg Challenge to Education support the project in large part.
Academic text (2000) -
One of the objects that the Getty has agreed in principle to return remains in California, pending the outcome of negotiations.
Academic text (2007) -
Thomas F. Reese is the deputy director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Academic text (1995) -
What we're looking at is the most beautiful oil painting on loan to us by the Getty Museum, California, showing the adoration of the Magi.
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Visitors can enjoy a wide range of exhibits at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people see and learn about art, history, or science
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2.8
A place where people go to see and buy art
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2.7
A place like a building or website that shows paintings and sculptures for people to see and sometimes buy
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2.3
A building that shows paintings and sculptures to the public
A room or building where paintings and other art are shown to the public
Surface Forms
Etymology
Getty is an informal name for the J. Paul Getty Museum or the Getty Center in Los Angeles; people call the place 'the Getty' because J. Paul Getty's money built it, so the short name now means that famous museum.