premed
Americannoun
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a program of premedical study or training.
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a student enrolled in such a program.
adjective
adjective
noun
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short for premedication
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a premedical student
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of premed
First recorded in 1960–65; short for premedical
Example Sentences
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When Yang, 35, and Rogers, 36, met their freshman year on New York University’s sketch comedy scene, Yang was a premed student.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Echevarria got his start in fashion by dropping out of the University of Maryland premed program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
Giving up the parental “collective chosen path” of a premed track at the University of Michigan to study abroad for a year in Italy and later pursue a law degree, for instance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
She majored in Eastern European Studies and Religious Studies in college after starting out as a premed major.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Even though she was premed, she made a point of taking pottery and dance classes for the simple reason that they made her happy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
YMCAT: Young men, a bunch of premeds/ I said young men, there’s plenty of beds .
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019
For a while, the boom seemed like a lasting phenomenon: Will Smith beat-boxed as “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” on NBC; on “A Different World,” activists, premeds, and Jack-and-Jill princesses sparred and flirted.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
I encourage them to use this day to work on other, less tangible parts of their application – and premeds will know how their peers hate doing something that's not premed related.
From US News ● Jul. 7, 2015
Latin last semester, an accelerated programme for premeds.
From Nature ● Sep. 18, 2013
Back in D.C., in October 2010, Hatfill and I were descending in an elevator at George Washington University, where he had just shown a class of premeds how to stanch wounds with tourniquets.
From Newsweek
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