see|Lyceum
English
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Etymology
Gr. term|��κειον|trLukeion|langel (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school) < ��κειο� ("Lycian" or "wolf-killer").
Noun
en-noun
- A public hall designed for lectures or concerts.
- US A school at a stage between elementary school and college.
Quotations
;public hall
1875, w:Henry James|Henry James, w:Roderick Hudson|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.
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