undergrad
[uhn-der-grad]
- an undergraduate.
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Origin of undergrad
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
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Contemporary Examples
McCaskill, while an undergrad at the University of Missouri, had a friend who was assaulted while on a date.
As an undergrad at Stanford, I was an English and Political Science double-major.
Cruz did his undergrad time at Princeton, and followed it up with Harvard Law, where he edited the storied Harvard Law Review.
This leaves only my school loans ($145,000 from law school at 6.8–7.9%, and $20,000 from undergrad at 4.25%).
Four-year private college costs have more than doubled since I was an undergrad.
Historical Examples
Did you ever play on the football team while you were an undergrad?
Bert Wilson on the GridironJ. W. Duffield
We were as inseparable as the Siamese twins in our undergrad.
Cleek, the Master DetectiveThomas W. Hanshew
You've taken just about every undergrad course there is in those fields.
Desire No MoreAlgirdas Jonas Budrys
I have had a fondness for the color ever since I was one of you—an undergrad.
Ann Arbor TalesKarl Edwin Harriman
He is as keen to win in a canoe race as any undergrad in his college boat and is a genuine and true sportsman.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free StateMarcus Dorman
Word Origin and History for undergrad
n.
short for undergraduate, 1827.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper