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Lyceum

Pronunciation: /lʌɪˈsiːəm/
Definition of Lyceum
  • the garden at Athens in which Aristotle taught philosophy.
  • (as noun the Lyceum) Aristotelian philosophy and its followers.
  • (as noun a lyceum) US archaic a literary institution, lecture hall, or teaching place.

Origin:

via Latin from Greek Lukeion, neuter of Lukeios, epithet of Apollo (from whose neighbouring temple the Lyceum was named)

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