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Baccalaureate

/bækəˈlɔːɹɪət/

A bachelor's degree.

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📖 Definitions of "Baccalaureate"

noun

1
A bachelor's degree.
2
A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to go on to higher education.
3
A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
4
The International Baccalaureate.

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degreenoun	(education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
diplomanoun	A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
graduatenoun	A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
matriculationnoun	Enrollment in a college or university.
undergraduatenoun	A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
certificatenoun	(education) A document serving as evidence that a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution not authorised to grant diplomas, or to a student not qualifying for a diploma.
bscnoun	(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science. [A three- to four-year (about 120 credit hours) undergraduate degree, with a concentration in the sciences or scientific applications.]
licencenoun	UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.
grammarnoun	(countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
bachelornoun	A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
maturitynoun	The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression.
ripenessnoun	The characteristic of being ripe.
bacnoun	A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
lacnoun	A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
schoolnoun	(India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
ocanoun	Any of species Oxalis tuberosa (syn. Oxalis crenata), which bear edible tubers.
baccalauréat	The baccalauréat, often known in France colloquially as the bac, is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the lycée) by meeting certain requirements.
bachelors	an Iranian Comedy television series directed by Soroush Sehhat, written by Sehhat and Iman Safaee, starring Hootan Shakiba, Amir Hossein Rostami, Amir Kazemi, Kazem Sayahi, Matin Sotoudeh, Bijan Banafshekhah, and Roya Mirelmi.
diplomasnoun	A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
honoursnoun	a university degree with honors