undergraduate
pronunciation
How to pronounce undergraduate in British English:
UK [ˌʌndəˈɡrædʒuət]
How to pronounce undergraduate in American English:
US [ˌʌndərˈɡrædʒuət]
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- Noun:
- a university student who has not yet received a first degree
Word Origin
- undergraduate (n.)
- 1620s, a hybrid formed from under + graduate (n.). British used fem. form undergraduette in 1920s-30s. As an adjective, in the school sense, from 1680s.
Antonym
Example
- 1. But which undergraduate institutions offer the most valuable degrees ?
- 2. I fire off a string of questions any university undergraduate would ask .
- 3. Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time .
- 4. Garber first came to harvard in 1973 as an undergraduate .
- 5. Ryosuke kobayashi is the only japanese undergraduate in his year at harvard university .