Serapeum
Americannoun
-
Serapeums,
plural
-
Serapea
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Serapeum
1835–45; < Late Latin Serāpēum < Greek Serāpeîon
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He supposed, however, that the Serapeum did not reveal all its wisdom at once, perhaps; and he did not lose hope altogether.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Serapeum yonder, at the endless end of an avenue of six hundred sphinxes, six rows of a hundred sphinxes, the ever-silent incarnations of wisdom, the lion-women who were the wisdom of Neith!
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
Hamilton, Colonel, his paper on the Serapeum, ii.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
Toward Serapeum, some distance south, the Seventy-fourth Regiment was stationed.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Even the Serapeum is deserted ... for the temple of Serapis at Canopus.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
