SMITHSONIAN
\smɪθsˈə͡ʊni͡ən], \smɪθsˈəʊniən], \s_m_ɪ_θ_s_ˈəʊ_n_iə_n]\
Definitions of SMITHSONIAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
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Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.
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The Smithsonian Institution.
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smith-s[=o]'ni-an, adj. pertaining to James Macie Smithson (1765--1829), founder of a great institution at Washington for ethnological and scientific investigations, organised by Congress in 1846.
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