undergraduate
[uhn-der-graj-oo-it, -eyt]
- a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
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- having the standing of an undergraduate.
- of, for, pertaining to, or characteristic of undergraduates.
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Origin of undergraduate
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Examples from the Web for undergraduate
Contemporary Examples
She graduated from her undergraduate program magna cum laude.
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November 5, 2014
As a Harvard undergraduate, he used systolic blood pressure readings to invent the lie detector test.
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Even though his undergraduate studies had led him to be a vegetarian, he decided to intern with a small pork producer.
Deresiewicz taught English at Yale for a decade, and he studied at Columbia for undergraduate and graduate school.
He then went to the University of Southern Florida in Tampa as an undergraduate, before getting his masters in Kansas.
Historical Examples
They weren't interested in Cassel's undergraduate days, or in Morse's conquests.
The Hour of BattleRobert Sheckley
They suffered no drastic loss of touch with undergraduate thought and life.
College TeachingPaul Klapper
But they will rarely be found of most profit to undergraduate classes.
College TeachingPaul Klapper
All of the preceding discussion applies only to undergraduate work.
College TeachingPaul Klapper
They had been at Cambridge together, and ever since their undergraduate days had been intimate chums.
The White LieWilliam Le Queux
undergraduate
- a person studying in a university for a first degreeSometimes shortened to: undergrad
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Word Origin and History for undergraduate
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