lyceum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hall or association providing public lectures, debates, readings, or concerts

   The town lyceum invited scientists and writers to speak throughout the winter.

2. 2
   noun

   a secondary school, especially in parts of Europe

   She completed her final examinations at the local lyceum.

From Latin Lyceum and Greek Lykeion, the Athenian gymnasium beside which Aristotle taught. The proper name broadened to a place of instruction, then to lecture societies and halls in the United States and to secondary schools in several European systems.

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