lycee
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9.9
- noun
- /liˈseɪ/
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liceo
- Students at the lycee study hard to prepare for the baccalauréat exam.
Examples
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"Really," the stranger said pensively, "what Mourmechian family man would ever think that the headmaster of the lycee devotes himself to nudist exhibitions in front of, I say, in front of men?"
Fiction book (1997) -
The inadequacy that he expresses is tied to childhood poverty and a lack of formal education (Il'f, unlike Petrov, did not have a lycee background; in the crucial area of Russian and world culture, he was entirely self-taught).
Academic text (1999) -
Owing, no doubt, to the conventions of the French lycee assignment, the last and least felicitous choice was made.
Academic text (1995) -
This is also the result of the superior training all French children receive in their little lycees, where it is understood that Americans can speak no language but their own.
Fiction book (1991) -
But after you see men like Voja Mitrovic and Gene Nocon either retire, die, or both, it makes me resign and love the lycee.
Blog text (15) -
Lycee's application for federal startup charter grants, which was approved, did not reveal the selective admissions criterion, which is against federal law.
Blog text (13) -
Petrov's father was a teacher in a lycee, and Petrov had a classical education; despite an interlude in his youth immediately after the Revolution when he worked as a police investigator, there was a seamless cultural transition from this father to his sons.
Academic text (1999) -
Winemaker Pierre Birebent, a graduate of Lycee Agricole Macon-Davaye in Burgundy, translates more French into his technique than merely the blends:
Blog text (18) -
Nonetheless, they may have overlapped as students at Lycee Sisowath in Phnom Penh, as reported in the 2002 US Embassy cable disclosed by WikiLeaks that I cite in my article.
Blog text (11) -
He attended a prestigious lycee in Paris that specialized in science and mathematics.
Synonyms
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2.0
A school for students aged about 11 to 18 that comes after primary school and before college
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6.7
A school for older children that prepares them for university
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8.8
A school for teenagers before they go to college
A school in France or French-speaking countries for students aged 15 to 18
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lycee comes from the old Greek school called the Lyceum, where the thinker Aristotle taught, so the name became linked to a place of serious study. That's why a French lycee is a school for older teenagers preparing for their final exams.