agrégé

noun

agré·​gé

ä-grā-ˈzhā,

-gre-ˈzhā

plural agrégés

ä-grā-ˈzhā,

-gre-ˈzhā

: an academic rank conferred by a French university on one who has passed a rigidly competitive examination and who is therefore entitled to appointment to the highest teaching post in a lycée or in one of the faculties of a university

Word History

Etymology

French, from past participle of agréger to admit (influenced in meaning by agrégation), from Latin aggregare to add to

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

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