"bachelor's degree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bachelor's degrees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bachelor's degree (plural bachelor's degrees)
  1. The first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges; a baccalaureate. Categories (topical): Academic degrees Synonyms: bachelor degree Coordinate_terms: diploma, associate's degree, master's degree, doctorate, Ph.D., postdoc Translations (first or lowest academic degree): بَكَالُورِيَا (bakālōriyā) (Arabic), բակալավրի աստիճան (bakalavri astičan) (Armenian), ပထမဘွဲ့ (pa.hta.ma.bhwai.) (Burmese), llicenciatura [feminine] (Catalan), 學士學位 (Chinese Mandarin), 学士学位 (xuéshì xuéwèi) (Chinese Mandarin), bachelor [common-gender] (Danish), bachelorgrad [common-gender] (Danish), bakalaŭreco (Esperanto), kandidaatin tutkinto (Finnish), kandidaatintutkinto (Finnish), licence [feminine] (French), diplomatura (Galician), ბაკალავრის ხარისხი (baḳalavris xarisxi) (Georgian), Bachelor [masculine] (German), Bakkalaureus [masculine] (German), Bachelorabschluss [masculine] (German), בוגר אוניברסיטה (bogér univérsita) [masculine] (Hebrew), תואר ראשון (to'ár rishón) [masculine] (Hebrew), alapdiploma (Hungarian), bakkalárgráða [feminine] (Icelandic), sarjana (Indonesian), 学士 (Japanese), ijazah sarjana muda (Malay), prasiswazah (Malay), bachelorgrad [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bachelor [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bachelorgrad [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bachelor [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), کارشناسی (kâršenâsi) (Persian), licencjat [masculine] (Polish), bacharelado [masculine] (Portuguese), bacalaureat [masculine] (Romanian), licențiat [masculine] (Romanian), titlu de bachelor [neuter] (Romanian), bakalárstvo (Slovak), bakalaureát (Slovak), licenciatura [feminine] (Spanish), kandidatexamen (Swedish), ཉེ་བའི་གཙུག་ལག་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར (nye ba'i gtsug lag rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer) (Tibetan), མཐོ་རིམ་རིག་གནས་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར (mtho rim rig gnas rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer) (Tibetan), lisans (Turkish), сту́пінь бакала́вра (stúpinʹ bakalávra) [masculine] (Ukrainian), bagloriaeth [feminine] (Welsh), gradd baglor [masculine] (Welsh)

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      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bacalaureat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "licențiat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "titlu de bachelor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "bakalárstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "bakalaureát"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "licenciatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "kandidatexamen"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "nye ba'i gtsug lag rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "ཉེ་བའི་གཙུག་ལག་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "mtho rim rig gnas rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "མཐོ་རིམ་རིག་གནས་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "word": "lisans"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stúpinʹ bakalávra",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сту́пінь бакала́вра"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bagloriaeth"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "first or lowest academic degree",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gradd baglor"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bachelor's degree"
}

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