sizar

American  

[sahy-zer] / ˈsaɪ zər /

Or sizer

noun

1. (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.

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sizar British  

/ ˈsaɪzə /

noun

1. (at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate receiving a maintenance grant from the college

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Other Word Forms

• sizarship
  noun
• subsizar
  noun
• subsizarship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of sizar

First recorded in 1580–90; size ¹ + -ar ³

Example Sentences

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sizar

He in his time had been a sizar, and had not found the duties devolving lowering or an impediment, as he said, to intimacy and association with the great and good.

From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland

He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner; he was not exactly a servant, but made himself generally useful.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New

Let me see; the next time I heard of him was when he attempted to enter college as a sizar, and failed.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University.

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine