Definitions for Lyceum

Lyceum ly·ce·um

Spelling: [lahy-see-uh m]
IPA: /laɪˈsi əm/

Lyceum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in Lyceum (celmuy).

Definitions for Lyceum

noun

  1. an institution for popular education providing discussions, lectures, concerts, etc.
  2. a building for such activities.
  3. (initial capital letter) the gymnasium where Aristotle taught, in ancient Athens.
  4. a lycée.

Origin of Lyceum

1570-80; Latin Lycēum, Lycīum Greek Lýkeion place in Athens, so named from the neighboring temple of Apollo; noun use of neuter of lýkeios, epithet of Apollo, variously explained

Examples for Lyceum

But still I do not understand why it should always be the lyceum.

"Now you are talking like a heroine of lyceum drama," he said.

We're going down to Sherry's for dinner and then over to the lyceum.

I am going, I replied, from the Academy straight to the lyceum.

The letters, telephone calls, and fax messages started pouring into the lyceum.

In Barton we knitted while we talked, and at the lyceum lectures.

Fred Archer sent him originally to the stage door at the lyceum.

Among the boxes that arrived at the lyceum was one bearing a return address I recognized.

I tell him "that either Francis comes to the lyceum or that I go to rejoin him at the hospital."

And the company is breaking ground on a distillery in September, to be located in an old inn down the street from the lyceum.

Word Value for Lyceum
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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