Crossword clues for lyceums
The Collaborative International 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.]
A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
An association for debate and literary improvement.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of lyceum English)
Usage examples of "lyceums".
In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion.
The present will be looked to by after coming generations, as the age of anti-slavery literature – when supply on the gallop could not keep pace with the ever growing demand – when a picture of a Negro on the cover was a help to the sale of a book – when conservative lyceums and other American literary associations began first to select their orators for distinguished occasions from the ranks of the previously despised abolitionists.