Lycee Definition

lē-sā
lycee
noun
In France, a secondary school maintained by the government for preparing students for a university.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Lycee

Noun

Singular:
lycee
Plural:
lyces

Origin of Lycee

  • French from Old French lyceum from Latin Lycēum lyceum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French lycée.

    From Wiktionary

Lycee Sentence Examples

  • There is also a lycee in which the instruction is similar to that given in France, and in which Christians, Jews and Mahommedans are educated together.

  • It also has a lycee, training-colleges, a school of artillery, a library and several learned societies.

  • Ardently devoted to the service of humanity, he projected a scheme for a general concourse of all the savants in Europe, and started in London a paper, Journal du Lycee de Londres, which was to be the organ of their views.

  • He was educated at the lycee Louis le Grand, and afterwards studied medicine, a profession which he abandoned in 1894 for that of literature.

  • In the same year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the lycee of Lyons.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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