lycée
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of lycée
1860–65; < French < Latin lycēum lyceum
Explanation
A lycee is a high school, particularly one where French is spoken. Before you enroll at the Sorbonne, you need to graduate from your lycee! In France, the lycee (or in French, lycée) is the final part of a student's secondary, pre-college education. Generally this means grades 9 through 12, or the equivalent of high school in the U.S. If you attend an American lycee, it is usually a French immersion school, or one that mixes the use of English and French. Lycee derives from the Greek lykeion, an ancient Athenian grove where Aristotle taught.
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Example Sentences
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Her father is an engineer; her feminist mother marches in demonstrations against the shah; Marji, an only child, attends French lycée.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Lie With Me, which was a No 1 bestseller in France, follows a first love between two teenage boys, Besson and Thomas Andrieux, a fellow pupil at his lycée in the Charente in south-west France.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2019
Quand je suis partie voir le proviseur-adjoint du lycée, la seule solution qu’elle a trouvée était notre renvoi à tous les deux si nous n’apaisions pas les tensions qu’il avait provoquées.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016
Her father was a university professor and Lagarde – who has three younger brothers – grew up in a disciplined yet loving environment, studying at the lycée in Le Havre.
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2011
Explain how the terms college, lycée, gymnasium, academy, and grammar school all came to be employed, in different countries, to designate about the same type of secondary school.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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