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Definitions: Baccalaureate |
BaccalaureateNoun1. A farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies. 2. An academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baccalaureate" was first used: some time in the mid-17th century. (references) |
Synonym: BaccalaureateSynonym: bachelor's degree (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repute | Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Baccalaureate |
| English words defined with "baccalaureate": Baccalaureate sermon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "baccalaureate": Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate. (references) |
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Travel | Sri Lanka | The Overseas School of Colombo offers programs for pre-school through twelfth grade and is the only international school offering an International Baccalaureate diploma, which is the equivalent of a diploma from an American high school. (references) |
Ghana | The Lincoln Community School, a U.S. Department of State-supported school, has an American-based curriculum and teachers that are all certified to teach in the U.S. The Lincoln School is planning to offer the International Baccalaureate program effective academic year 2002-2003. The others are the Ghana International School, with a British-based curriculum, and the Kokrobitey School, which has U.S. high school year-abroad programs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Baccalaureate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baccalaureate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "baccalaureate": baccalaureate sermon. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "baccalaureate": baccalaureate-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
international baccalaureate | 220 |
baccalaureate | 209 |
2003 baccalaureate | 69 |
post baccalaureate | 22 |
baccalaureate post program | 15 |
baccalaureate degree | 15 |
baccalaureate sermon | 13 |
baccalaureate post premedical program | 9 |
baccalaureate speech | 9 |
baccalaureate high school | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baccalaureate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | diplomë (certificate, diploma, qualification). (various references) | |
Arabic | البكالوريا شهادة الثانوية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бакалауреат. (various references) | |
Chinese | 学士学位. (various references) | |
Czech | bakalaureát. (various references) | |
Danish | studentereksamen uden latin(moderne sektion) (Baccalaureate in Modern Studies), studentereksamen med latin (Baccalaureate with Latin), student (academic, holder of the Baccalaureate, scholar, student), proeverne til Den europaeiske Studentereksamen (Baccalaureate examinations, European Baccalaureate examinations), Forordningen om Den europaeiske Studentereksamen (Regulations for the European Baccalaureate), ekstraordinaer studentereksamen (extraordinary session of the Baccalaureate), eksamenskommission for den europaeiske studentereksamen (Board of Examiners for the European Baccalaureate), Den europaeiske Studentereksamen (European Baccalaureate). (various references) | |
Dutch | buitengewoon eindexamen (extraordinary session of the Baccalaureate), baccalaureaatsexamens (Baccalaureate examinations, European Baccalaureate examinations), baccalaureaat moderne sectie (Baccalaureate in Modern Studies), baccalaureaat met Latijn (Baccalaureate with Latin), Regeling voor het Europese Eindexamen (Regulations for the European Baccalaureate), Regeling voor het Europese baccalaureaat (Regulations for the European Baccalaureate), examencommissie voor het Europees eindexamen (Board of Examiners for the European Baccalaureate), Europees baccalaureaatsexamen (European Baccalaureate), Europees baccalaureaat (European Baccalaureate), eindexamens voor het Europese baccalaureaat (Baccalaureate examinations, European Baccalaureate examinations), eindexamen moderne sectie (Baccalaureate in Modern Studies), abituriënt (holder of the Baccalaureate). (various references) | |
Farsi | لیسانسیه یامهندس , درجه باشلیه . (various references) | |
French | baccalauréat (bachelor's degree). (various references) | |
German | Abitur,das. (various references) | |
Greek | πτυχιούχοσ πανεπιστημίου, πτυχίο πανεπιστημιακών σπουδών. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bachelor-i fokozat. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sarjana muda (bachelor of art). (various references) | |
Italian | baccellierato, baccalaureato, maturit (exploitability, matureness, maturity, mellowness, ripeness, ripeness for cutting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accalaureatebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bacharelado (bachelorhood, bachelorship). (various references) | |
Russian | степень бакалавра (bachelorship). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | beseda održana diplomiranim studentom, bakalaureat. (various references) | |
Spanish | bachillerato (bachelors degree, bachelorship). (various references) | |
Swedish | kandidatexamen. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้สำเร็จปริญญาตรี (คำทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | bakalorya (bachelorhood), fakülte diploması. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ступінь бакалавра (bachelorhood), холостяк (bachelor, batch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bằng tú t i. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | baculum. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | baccalaureus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baccalaureate": baccalaureates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "baccalaureate": postbaccalaureate. (additional references) | |
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"Baccalaureate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baccalaurate, baccaulaureate, bacccalaureate, bacclaureate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baccalaureate" (pronounced ba'kulô"rēut) |
| 6 | -l ô" r ē u t | laureate. |
| 4 | -r ē u t | appropriate, chariot, compatriot, inappropriate, lariat, patriot, proletariat, secretariat. |
| 3 | -ē u t | associate, Cheviot, idiot, immediate, intermediate, opiate, remediate, soviet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: acetabular, trabeculae. | |
-4 letters: accruable, acetabula, trabecula, traceable. | |
-5 letters: accurate, acerbate, aculeate, baccarat, bracelet, bracteal, calceate, cartable, lacerate, laureate, rateable, tearable, tubercle, ulcerate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: baccalaureates. | |
+4 letters: postbaccalaureate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 63 61 6C 61 75 72 65 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c c a l a u r e a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 0063 0061 006C 0061 0075 0072 0065 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36676969677867878471678671 |
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