Associations to the word «Baccalaureate»

Wiktionary

BACCALAUREATE, noun. A bachelor degree.
BACCALAUREATE, noun. A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to go on to higher education.
BACCALAUREATE, noun. (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.

Dictionary definition

BACCALAUREATE, noun. A farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies.
BACCALAUREATE, noun. An academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope