abitur

plural abiturs

1. Alternative letter-case form of Abitur.

plural Abiturs · alternative abitur

1. A group of matriculation exams taken in the final year of German secondary school.First known use mid 20th c.

   The oral and written exam became called the Abitur, from Latin abitus, that is, departure from school. The Prussian and later German Abitur amounted to a sort of baccalaureate-equivalent exam, administered outside the university.

   [2008, William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124