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Webster 1913 Edition
Lyceum
Ly-ce′um
,Noun.
pl. E.
Lyceums
(#)
, L. Lycea
(#)
. [L.
lyceum
, Gr. [GREEK], so named after the neighboring temple of [GREEK] [GREEK] Apollo the wolf slayer, prob. fr. [GREEK] belonging to a wolf, fr [GREEK] wolf. See Wolf
.] 1.
A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
2.
A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
3.
A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
4.
An association for debate and literary improvement.
Definition 2024
lyceum
lyceum
See also: Lyceum
English
Noun
lyceum (plural lyceums)
- A public hall designed for lectures or concerts.
- (US) A school at a stage between elementary school and college.
Translations
a public hall designed for lectures or concerts
Quotations
- public hall
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
- At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 414
- In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.