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lyceum

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"Lecture hall"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /laɪˈsiːəm/Part of speech nounSorted celmuyStarts with LEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a public hall for lectures and concerts

Word origin

From Latin Lyceum, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Λύκειος, from Proto-Greek *λύκη), "light." The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος). Doublet of lycée and Lyceum.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything.

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