Etymology

Noun

1. A public hall designed for lectures or concerts.
2. A school at a stage between elementary school and college.

Quotations

• 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 414

  In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.