the last secondary school exam in France and some other countries, and in some international schools （法国等国家以及一些国际学校的）中学毕业会考 to sit/take/pass/fail your baccalaureate 参加／通过／未通过中学毕业会考
(in the US) a religious service or talk for students who have completed high school or college （美国为中学或大学毕业生举行的）宗教礼仪，布道
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense of a university bachelor's degree): from French baccalauréat or medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from baccalaureus ‘bachelor’. The earlier form baccalarius was altered by wordplay to conform with bacca lauri ‘laurel berry’, because of the laurels awarded to scholars. Sense (1) dates from 1970.