Baccalaureate vs Bachelor - What's the difference?
baccalaureate | bachelor |
The first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor degree.
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.
(US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
A man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
* Washington Irving
The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
(senseid)Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
(Canada) A bachelor apartment.
(obsolete) An unmarried woman.
(obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
(obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxys annularis ) of the southern United States.
Bachelor is a synonym of baccalaureate.
As nouns the difference between baccalaureate and bachelor
is that baccalaureate is the first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor degree while bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.baccalaureate
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(wikipedia baccalaureate)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities) bachelor degree, bachelor's degreeSee also
* (International Baccalaureate) * advanced degree * doctorate * master's degreebachelor
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Alternative forms
* bachelour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
- (Ben Jonson)