alumnus
- a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
- a former associate, employee, member, or the like: He invited all the alumni of the library staff to the party.
Origin of alumnus
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Contemporary Examples of alumnus
She says she met Cosby, a Temple alumnus and big-time donor to the university, in November 2002.
How Bill Cosby Allegedly Silenced His Accusers Through A Tabloid Smear CampaignMarlow Stern
November 21, 2014
A former House Budget chairman and Fox News alumnus, Kasich was a libertarian leaning fiscal conservative before it was cool.
The celebrated nanny college counts as its most famous (if fictional) alumnus Mary Poppins.
Bernie is a fabulous writer I have long admired, a model McGill alumnus, and a new friend.
The fact that the government employee in question is a McKinsey alumnus does not allay any of my concerns.
Historical Examples of alumnus
It should not insist on making every alumnus a linguist or a mathematician.
He is an alumnus of Dartmouth of '87 and of Boston University, department of medicine, of '90.
Among the SiouxR. J. Creswell
But the work of the Association and its officers has not stopped with the Alumnus.
The University of MichiganWilfred Shaw
And chance might have made thee an alumnus, like one of those.
Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz
The University, however, shares the attachment of the alumnus.
Oxford and Her CollegesGoldwin Smith
alumnus
- mainly US and Canadian a graduate of a school, college, etc
Word Origin for alumnus
Word Origin and History for alumnus
1640s, from Latin alumnus "a pupil," literally "foster son," vestigial present passive participle of alere "to nourish" (see old), with ending akin to Greek -omenos. Plural is alumni. Fem. is alumna (1882), fem. plural alumnae.