Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

odditorium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: odd-i-to-ri-um
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.

Example Sentences

"[…] and we found passageways with queer, quaint gables, and in a draper's shop, and in constant daily use, we came upon an ancient and beautiful oak staircase really fit for a palace, and we happened upon an "odditorium," […]"
"Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago."
"Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island."
"His shop had been an odditorium, its crowding walls filled to the ceiling with unfathomable, strangely charismatic products like Bay Rum and styptic pencils that would seal up cuts […]."

Etymology

Blend of odd + auditorium; mainly used by the franchise of Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

Inflected Forms

odditoriums (plural)

Questions

What does odditorium mean?: A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.
Where does odditorium come from?: Blend of odd + auditorium; mainly used by the franchise of Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

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