lyceum
see also: Lyceum
Pronunciation
Lyceum
Proper noun
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see also: Lyceum
Pronunciation
- IPA: /laɪˈsiːəm/
lyceum (plural lyceums)
- (historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.
- 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.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
- (US, historical) A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
- An association for literary improvement.
- German: Aula, Konzertsaal, Vortragssaal
- Russian: лице́й
Lyceum
Proper noun
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