gymnasium

Other forms of gymnasium

plural

gymnasia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gymnasium

What does gymnasium mean?

gymnasium means "a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gymnasium?

gymnasium has 4 syllables: gym-na-si-um. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/.

What is another word for gymnasium?

Close synonyms include secondary school, lyceum, lycee, middle school, gym. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gymnasium a common word?

gymnasium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.