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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A French lyceum, or secondary school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

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  • noun a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

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Examples

  • Mayor Gavin Newsom made his way through the parade crowd, passing out red envelopes also known as lycee in the Chinese culture.

    Golden Gate [X]pReSS 2009

  • Mayor Gavin Newsom made his way through the parade crowd, passing out red envelopes also known as lycee in the Chinese culture.

    Golden Gate [X]pReSS 2009

  • Living in parts of the 6th will get them to college and lycee Montaign.

    retirer - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Some college and lycee have a better reputation than others.

    retirer - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • For example we are led to believe that if we choose the right part of the 5th our kids can go to Henri IV college and then it's lycee.

    retirer - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I'm filling up on bread sticks, hoping to s-p-r-e-a-d my meager salary as stringer for the Worcester News-Recorder to cover le dejeuner, which I'm sure will turn into le diner complete with escargot, pain au chocolat and a lycee technologique.

    Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch Con Chapman 2012

  • Je suis une femme d'un certain age, francophile depuis l'age de sept, etudiante de francais, et professeur au lycee pendant vingt annees.

    joyeux - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • That, for which I have been working towards tirelessly, that, which will be the charm and pride of my life, is the establishment of public lycee for girls and the creation of at least one technical college for women.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • I became a French teacher, which was (is?) a fun career for me and after retiring am still co-coordinating an exchange with 2 American schools and a lycee in France.

    petite amie - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • USAforHaiti RT @clarlune: RT @yveno76: URGENT Rescue team needed at lycee Anacaona Leogane students are still trapped ..

    Haiti Earthquake: Breaking News, Updates (VIDEO) 2010

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