English edit

Etymology edit

Compare calisthenics.

Noun edit

calistheneum (plural not attested)

  1. (dated) A gymnasium, especially one for light physical exercise by women and children.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calistheneum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)