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mature student

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noun

a student at a college or university who has passed the usual age for formal education

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Omar al-Bayoumi moved into Parkwood claiming to be a mature student.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In November 2021, Ms Bashir came to the UK from Pakistan to study business management and, several months later, Arslan followed, arriving in February 2022 as a mature student.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023

Yusuf, a mature student eight years in recovery, is the peer manager.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023

“I’m a mature student in a hurry,” she told him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Embryology precedes the treatise on the perfect animal; it is but right, therefore, that the new man should have our attention before the mature student.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various

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