Standard Lemma guide

lycée

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A public secondary school in France.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From French lycée. Doublet of lyceum.

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: lice — a public secondary school in France
  • Arabic: لِيسِيه (līsēh) — a public secondary school in France
  • Arabic: مَدْرَسَةٌ ثَانَوِيَّة (madrasatun ṯānawiyya) — a public secondary school in France
  • Armenian: լիցեյ (licʻey) — a public secondary school in France
  • Azerbaijani: lisey — a public secondary school in France
  • Belarusian: ліцэ́й (licéj) — a public secondary school in France
  • Bulgarian: лице́й (licéj) — a public secondary school in France
  • Burmese: အထက်တန်းကျောင်း (a.htaktan:kyaung:) — a public secondary school in France
  • Catalan: liceu — a public secondary school in France
  • Chinese Mandarin: 中學 /中学 (zhōngxué) — a public secondary school in France
  • Czech: lyceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Danish: lyceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Dutch: lyceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Esperanto: liceo — a public secondary school in France
  • Estonian: lütseum — a public secondary school in France
  • Finnish: lyseo — a public secondary school in France
  • French: lycée — a public secondary school in France
  • Georgian: ლიცეუმი (liceumi) — a public secondary school in France
  • Georgian: ლიცეი (licei) — a public secondary school in France
  • German: Lyzeum — a public secondary school in France
  • Greek: λύκειο (lýkeio) — a public secondary school in France
  • Hungarian: líceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Indonesian: sekolah menengah — a public secondary school in France
  • Italian: liceo — a public secondary school in France
  • Japanese: 高等学校 (kōtōgakkō) — a public secondary school in France
  • Japanese: 中学校 (chūgakkō) — a public secondary school in France
  • Kazakh: лицей (lisei) — a public secondary school in France
  • Korean: 고등학교 (godeunghakgyo) — a public secondary school in France
  • Kyrgyz: лицей (litsey) — a public secondary school in France
  • Latvian: licejs — a public secondary school in France
  • Lithuanian: licėjus — a public secondary school in France
  • Macedonian: лицеј (licej) — a public secondary school in France
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lyceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Iranian Persian: لیسِه (lise) — a public secondary school in France
  • Iranian Persian: دَبیرِسْتان (dabirestân) — a public secondary school in France
  • Polish: liceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Portuguese: liceu — a public secondary school in France
  • Romanian: liceu — a public secondary school in France
  • Russian: лице́й (licéj) — a public secondary school in France
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѝцеј — a public secondary school in France
  • Serbo-Croatian: lìcej — a public secondary school in France
  • Slovak: lýceum — a public secondary school in France
  • Slovene: licej — a public secondary school in France
  • Spanish: liceo — a public secondary school in France
  • Tajik: литсей (litsey) — a public secondary school in France
  • Turkish: lise — a public secondary school in France
  • Ukrainian: ліце́й (licéj) — a public secondary school in France
  • Uzbek: litsey — a public secondary school in France
  • Vietnamese: trường trung học — a public secondary school in France
  • Vietnamese: lyxê — a public secondary school in France
  • Zazaki: lisa — a public secondary school in France