Lyceum definitions

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A hall in which public lectures, concerts, and similar programs are presented.
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An organization sponsoring public programs and entertainment.
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A lycée.
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A hall where public lectures or discussions are held.
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An organization presenting public lectures, concerts, etc.
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The grove at Athens where Aristotle taught.
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A public hall designed for lectures or concerts.
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(US) A school at a stage between elementary school and college.
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Origin of lyceum

Latin Lycēum from Greek Lukeion the name of a grove with athletic training grounds near Athens in which Aristotle taught from Lukeios epithet of Apollo (to whom the grove was sacred), of unknown meaning

Sentence Examples

  • There are an episcopal lyceum, a clerical seminary, a classical and a modern school, and numerous religious houses.

  • He was the son of a banker of Dauphiny, and after receiving his early education at a lyceum, was sent in 1813 to the Ecole Polytechnique.

  • On leaving the lyceum Gorchakov entered the foreign office under Count Nesselrode.

  • It has a town hall with handsome rooms, a library, a gymnasium, a lyceum, elementary schools, an arsenal, and eleven churches, the finest of which is St Martin's, of the 15th century, with many excellent paintings and a tower 300 ft.

  • But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined.

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