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

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Etymology

Origin of sizar

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

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Example Sentences

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sizar

Of the latter we hear nothing more until, in October, 1582, at the age of fifteen, he matriculated as a sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse

He had entered Saint Werner’s as a sizar, he left it as a Fellow, and not “With academic laurels unbestowed.”

From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

But why did you come up as a sizar, Julian?

From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

But he appears to have been born about 1552 in London, and to have been educated at Merchant Taylors', whence in May 1569 he matriculated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

The two incidents that we have narrated made Julian fear that his position as a sizar would be one of continual annoyance.

From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

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