Baccalauréat

British

/ ˌbækəˈlɔːrɪˌɑː /

noun

(esp in France) a school-leaving examination that qualifies the successful candidates for entrance to university

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Etymology

Origin of Baccalauréat

C20: from French, from Medieval Latin baccalaureus bachelor

Example Sentences

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Besides, what was still more important, Stephen had successfully passed his examination for the "Baccalauréat."

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

Horace—Homer—Æschylus—Plato—etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., and all there was to learn in that French school-boy's encyclopædia—"Le Manuel du Baccalauréat"; a very thick book in very small print.

From The Martian by Du Maurier, George

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