alumni

[uh-luhm-nahy]

noun

1. the plural of alumnus.

Example Sentences

“Older alumni are not interested in playing beyond the Yale-Harvard game.”

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By playing at the Rose Bowl, the Bruins are paid in majestic beauty, timeless tradition and a sense of family that their alumni and fans can’t get anywhere else.

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Students, teachers and alumni are in turmoil over the loss of their school.

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Universities need to make AI-integrated degrees and courses more common and support midcareer professionals and employers in AI adaptation with resources like my university’s AI training for alumni.

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The project brought together graduate students, undergraduate students, and recent alumni from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, along with collaborators from France and the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program.

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Related Words

• alum 
• alumna 

When To Use

Plural word for alumni

Alumni is the plural form of the singular noun alumnus. The plurals of several other words ending in -us are also formed in this way, such as fungus/fungi and cactus/cacti. Irregular plurals that are formed like alumni derive directly from their original pluralization in Latin. Specifically, alumnus is the masculine singular form in Latin and alumni is the masculine plural form. The feminine singular form in Latin is alumna and the feminine plural form is alumnae. Sometimes, this distinction is carried over into English. However, alumnus and alumni are both commonly used in a gender-neutral way in English.Alumni is sometimes treated as a singular noun. However, this is not considered valid in standard English, and alumni should be treated as a plural form.