musée
French, noun/my.ze/
musée is spelled M-U-S-É-E (5 letters) and appears 63 times per million words in written French, the 1,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musée is a French masculine noun meaning “museum (a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu destiné à réunir, conserver, classer et exposer les œuvres d’art, les objets et les documents…”.
What does musée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemuseum (a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value)
Tous les dimanches, nous allons au musée.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lieu destiné à réunir, conserver, classer et exposer les œuvres d’art, les objets et les documents intéressant les sciences et leurs applications. 2. Lieu rempli d'objets rares, beaux, précieux. 3. Lieu (ville, quartier) où se trouvent réunis des ensembles d'œuvres ou d'édifices du passé, à valeur historique et artistique → voir ville-musée. 4. Collection de choses diverses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of musée
- musées plural
- muséum
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musée?
- /my.ze/
- \my.ze\
- [my.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to musée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is musée in French?
musée appears 63 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).