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bachelor's degree

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baccalaureate

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baccalaureate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: academic degree, degree

Narrower terms: Bachelor of Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB, Bachelor of Arts in Library Science, ABLS, Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN, Bachelor of Divinity, BD, Bachelor of Literature, BLitt, Bachelor of Medicine, MB, Bachelor of Music, BMus, Bachelor of Naval Science, BNS, Bachelor of Science, BS, SB, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, BSArch, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Theology, ThB

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Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بَكَالُورِيَا (bakālōriyā) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Armenian: բակալավրի աստիճան (bakalavri astičan) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Burmese: ပထမဘွဲ့ (pa.hta.ma.bhwai.) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Catalan: llicenciatura — first or lowest academic degree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 學士學位 /学士学位 (xuéshì xuéwèi) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Danish: bachelor — first or lowest academic degree
  • Danish: bachelorgrad — first or lowest academic degree
  • Esperanto: bakalaŭreco — first or lowest academic degree
  • Finnish: kandidaatin tutkinto — first or lowest academic degree
  • Finnish: kandidaatintutkinto — first or lowest academic degree
  • French: licence — first or lowest academic degree
  • Galician: diplomatura — first or lowest academic degree
  • Georgian: ბაკალავრის ხარისხი (baḳalavris xarisxi) — first or lowest academic degree
  • German: Bachelor — first or lowest academic degree
  • German: Bakkalaureus — first or lowest academic degree
  • German: Bachelorabschluss — first or lowest academic degree
  • Hebrew: בוגר אוניברסיטה (bogér univérsita) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Hebrew: תואר ראשון (to'ár rishón) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Hungarian: alapdiploma — first or lowest academic degree
  • Icelandic: bakkalárgráða — first or lowest academic degree
  • Indonesian: sarjana — first or lowest academic degree
  • Japanese: 学士 — first or lowest academic degree
  • Japanese: 学士号 — first or lowest academic degree
  • Malay: ijazah sarjana muda — first or lowest academic degree
  • Malay: prasiswazah — first or lowest academic degree
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bachelorgrad — first or lowest academic degree
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bachelor — first or lowest academic degree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bachelorgrad — first or lowest academic degree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bachelor — first or lowest academic degree
  • Persian: کارشناسی (kâršenâsi) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Polish: licencjat — first or lowest academic degree
  • Portuguese: bacharelado — first or lowest academic degree
  • Romanian: bacalaureat — first or lowest academic degree
  • Romanian: licențiat — first or lowest academic degree
  • Romanian: titlu de bachelor — first or lowest academic degree
  • Russian: степень бакалавра (stepenʹ bakalavra) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Russian: бакалавриат (bakalavriat) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Slovak: bakalárstvo — first or lowest academic degree
  • Slovak: bakalaureát — first or lowest academic degree
  • Spanish: licenciatura — first or lowest academic degree
  • Spanish: bachillerato — first or lowest academic degree
  • Swahili: shahada ya kwanza — first or lowest academic degree
  • Swedish: kandidatexamen — first or lowest academic degree
  • Thai: ปริญญาตรี — first or lowest academic degree
  • Tibetan: 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) — first or lowest academic degree
  • 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) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Turkish: lisans — first or lowest academic degree
  • Ukrainian: сту́пінь бакала́вра (stúpinʹ bakalávra) — first or lowest academic degree
  • Welsh: bagloriaeth — first or lowest academic degree
  • Welsh: gradd baglor — first or lowest academic degree