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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 [syn: secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium, middle school]
2: a public hall for lectures and concerts

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin Lyceum, gymnasium near Athens where Aristotle taught, from Greek Lykeion, from neuter of lykeios, epithet of Apollo Date: 1786 1. a hall for public lectures or discussions 2. an association providing public lectures, concerts, and entertainments 3. lycee

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the garden at Athens in which Aristotle taught philosophy. b Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. 2 (lyceum) US hist. a literary institution, lecture-hall, or teaching-place. Etymology: L f. Gk Lukeion neut. of Lukeios epithet of Apollo (from whose neighbouring temple the Lyceum was named)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lyceum Ly*ce"um, n.; pl. E. Lyceums, L. Lycea. [L. lyceum, Gr. ?, so named after the neighboring temple of ? ? Apollo the wolf slayer, prob. fr. ? belonging to a wolf, fr ? wolf. See Wolf.] 1. A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy. 2. A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions. 3. A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university. 4. An association for debate and literary improvement.

Moby Thesaurus

Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, chapel, concert hall, convention hall, dance hall, exhibition hall, gallery, grammar school, hall, high, high school, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, lecture hall, meetinghouse, middle school, music hall, opera house, prep school, preparatory school, public school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school, stadium, theater