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UK
/laɪsˈiːəm/
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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
How To Use lyceum In A Sentence
- Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
- Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.
- And, of course, the Romans already had the example of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
- So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
- By the second century AD, the Lyceum was again a flourishing center of philosophical activity.
- LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, trombonist Kirsten Leis Warfield performs "The Electric Slide." 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Alexandria and Arlington community events, July 8-15, 2010
- LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by violinist Benjamin Scott and pianist Brad Clark, works by Stravinsky, Howard Blake and Arvo Pärt. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Alexandria and Arlington events, June 24 to July 1, 2010
- The dependable talents of director Tony Cownie are being put to good use in the Lyceum's first production of the new season.
- Hence peripateticism, the philosophy of Aristotle, as he was said to have taught in the walks of the Lyceum at Athens. The Peripatetic Scribe
- LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT Local musicians Jay Chadwick, Joel Ang, Cesse Ip, Paul Marshall, Stephen Bertino, Sarah Strauss Himmelfarb and Susan Brockman perform music by Bach, Fauré and Dunhill. 3 p.m. The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Going Out Guide for Alexandria and Arlington, Aug. 5-11