baccalaureate

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HODGES UNIVERSITY - Florida's Hodges University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, baccalaureate, and graduate level degrees in a variety of academic areas.

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  1. noun See bachelor's degree.
  2. noun A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.

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  • For instance, I asked his advice after my baccalaureate, and he encouraged me in my decision to go through the Ecole Normale. —  Maigret in Society —Georges Simenon—#84
  • Then Kings, naturally, but did not stay up for his baccalaureate. —  Title here
  • Carmichael, from a variety of academic costume, was this morning robed as a baccalaureate of Salamanca. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
  • Such rapid progress did he make in his philosophical studies, that in his third term he was able to attain his baccalaureate, the first academical degree of the theological faculty. —  Life of Luther
  • Here also he had to begin with his baccalaureate, comprising in fact three different steps in the theological faculty, each of which had to be reached by an examination and disputation. —  Life of Luther
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  1. Medieval Latin baccalaureātus (influenced by bacca, berry, and laureātus, crowned with laurel), from baccalārius, bachelor; see bachelor.

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  1. from Middle Latin New Latin baccalaureatus, from baccalaureus, a corruption (simulating Latin bacca, berry, and laurus, laurel) of Middle Latin baccalarius, a bachelor, one who has attained the lowest degree in a university: see bachelor.
 

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/bækəˈlɔrəət/
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