lyceum

1. (historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.Examples: "At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done."; "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."historical

2. (US, historical) A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.Examples: "We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything."UShistorical