lycée
Americannoun
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lycées
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noun
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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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After grade school, Mr. Rutault attended lycée in Nantes and then moved to Bordeaux to attend Sciences Po Bordeaux, a political science institute.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Lili is spending a year teaching at a local lycée before going to graduate school.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
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
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 Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Secondary schools and lycées in green areas will be able to resume all classes from 2 June, but must follow health measures, such a maximum of 15 pupils per class.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2020
Ms. Stern said she attended one of the lycées created by Napoleon.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2015
These lycées were open to male students of all backgrounds.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
He dismissed corrupt officials and, in order to provide the government with trained officials, set up lycées, or government-run public schools.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The French woman’s rights movement has as yet not succeeded in establishing Gymnasiums for girls; at present, efforts are being made to introduce Gymnasium courses in the girls’ lycées.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Kaethe Schirmacher
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