lyceum
pronunciation
How to pronounce lyceum in British English:
UK [laɪ'si:əm]
How to pronounce lyceum in American English:
US [laɪ'siəm]
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- Noun:
- a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12
- a public hall for lectures and concerts
Word Origin
- lyceum (n.)
- 1580s, Latin form of Greek lykeion, name of a grove or garden with covered walks near Athens where Aristotle taught, from neuter of Lykeios "wolf-slayer," an epithet of Apollo, whose temple was nearby, from lykos "wolf." Hence lycée, name given in France to state-run secondary schools. In England, early 19c., lyceum was the name taken by a number of literary societies; in U.S., after c. 1820, it was the name of institutes that sponsored popular lectures in science and literature.
Example
- 1. They 're putting on a new show at the lyceum .
- 2. Lincoln gave the lyceum speech in 1837 , when he was twenty-eight years old .
- 3. With difficulty , the brothers managed to attend a good lyceum and then , as their father would have wished , law school .
- 4. " They 're going to give a performance in the lyceum , upstairs , " she reported one day , " and I 'm going to be in it . "
- 5. The education ideologist of ancient greece not only put forward own views of inquiring the educational human nature , but also established lyceum , carrying on fruitful education fulfillment .