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单词 Lyceum
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Definition of Lyceum in English:

Lyceum

proper nounlʌɪˈsɪəmlaɪˈsiəm
  • 1The garden at Athens in which Aristotle taught philosophy.

    1. 1.1as noun the Lyceum Aristotelian philosophy and its followers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Women like Isabel Babson were often active in the Lyceum and devoted more time to pursuing the relationships between nature, aesthetics and metaphysics.
      • And, of course, the Romans already had the example of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
      • Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.
      • By the second century AD, the Lyceum was again a flourishing center of philosophical activity.
      • On Aristotle's death, his friend and pupil Theophrastus assumed his mantle, and under him the Lyceum remained a focus of scientific and philosophical study.
      • Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum were located in gymnasia.
      • Aristotle lived in Athens much of his life, founded a school of philosophy called the Lyceum, and is usually reckoned to be the founder of logic.
    2. 1.2as noun a lyceumUS archaic A literary institution, lecture hall, or teaching place.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like a professor addressing a lyceum, she looked both friends in the eyes, and locked their attention into her voice.
      • Virginia City boasted two churches, a theater, and a lyceum.
      • Simionescu's husband was the head of a lyceum in Onesti specialising in physical education and sport (it was renamed the Nadia Comaneci School in 1994).
      • But other forms of education - in the home, at church, through lyceums and public lectures, by apprenticeship, and so on - were also more active in North than South.
      • He has much to say about Emerson's later career as a lyceum lecturer, little about his early career as a Unitarian minister.

Origin

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

 
 

Definition of Lyceum in US English:

Lyceum

proper nounlīˈsēəmlaɪˈsiəm
  • 1The garden at Athens in which Aristotle taught philosophy.

    1. 1.1the Lyceum Aristotelian philosophy and its followers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum were located in gymnasia.
      • Aristotle lived in Athens much of his life, founded a school of philosophy called the Lyceum, and is usually reckoned to be the founder of logic.
      • Women like Isabel Babson were often active in the Lyceum and devoted more time to pursuing the relationships between nature, aesthetics and metaphysics.
      • And, of course, the Romans already had the example of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
      • By the second century AD, the Lyceum was again a flourishing center of philosophical activity.
      • On Aristotle's death, his friend and pupil Theophrastus assumed his mantle, and under him the Lyceum remained a focus of scientific and philosophical study.
      • Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.
    2. 1.2as noun a lyceumUS archaic A literary institution, lecture hall, or teaching place.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like a professor addressing a lyceum, she looked both friends in the eyes, and locked their attention into her voice.
      • Simionescu's husband was the head of a lyceum in Onesti specialising in physical education and sport (it was renamed the Nadia Comaneci School in 1994).
      • Virginia City boasted two churches, a theater, and a lyceum.
      • But other forms of education - in the home, at church, through lyceums and public lectures, by apprenticeship, and so on - were also more active in North than South.
      • He has much to say about Emerson's later career as a lyceum lecturer, little about his early career as a Unitarian minister.

Origin

Via Latin from Greek Lukeion, neuter of Lukeios, epithet of Apollo (from whose neighboring temple the Lyceum was named).

 
 
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