almae matres

UK/ˌælmaɪ ˈmætɹɛs/

A form of alma mater — A school, college, or university which a person has graduated from or attended.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of alma mater

    Whether a professor will help you learn cannot be revealed by the number and prestige of his or her almae matres.

    2000, Donald Asher, Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different, page 9
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    Instead, he gave himself over to a course in books; through a long life they were his unnumbered and always unforgotten almae matres.

    1936, American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography, page 463

    His three happiest almae matres in New York were the Fishing Gazette, the New York Tribune and the New York Times.

    1977, Christopher Darlington Morley, Ironing Board, page 177
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