agrégé

[ ah-gre-zhey; French a-grey-zhey ]

noun

, plural a·gré·gés [ah-gre-, zheyz, a, -g, r, ey-, zhey].

1. a degree awarded by a French university, based on a competitive examination given by the state and qualifying the recipient for the highest teaching positions in a lycée or for the rank of professor in a school of law or medicine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agrégé¹

< French: literally, aggregated, i.e., admitted to membership

Example Sentences

While there he obtained the degree of Licencie-es-Lettres, and this was followed by that of Agrege de philosophie in 1881.

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