matriculate

present singular third person matriculates · participle present matriculating · participle past matriculated · past matriculated

1. transitiveTo enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
2. broadlyoftentransitiveTo join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.).

   As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs."

   2024 November 30 (last accessed), “Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace”, in HRC Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024

3. intransitivestativeTo be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
4. proscribedTo graduate (from a school or course of study).

   [...] fewer than 100 indigenous Namibians have matriculated (graduated) annually from secondary school. In 1982 the number fell to 20.

   2004 May 13, Robert I. Rotberg, Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 151

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   One of six distinguished brothers who matriculated from the school, he had enlisted together with two of his brothers, Christian and Gustav (or Gus).

   2014 November 14, Barry Gough, From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN

   ... matriculated from their nearby, isolated farming villages to come to the larger and more prosperous town. In the first year of West, Czechs founded both a Catholic parish and a Moravian Brethren church. By 1910, Czech businesses were[…]

   2017 October 12, Philip D. Smith, From Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 80

   It was soon after matriculating (graduating from high school), that these words would ring true for Mervyn. He and one of his classmates returned to Mr. Meyer and were excited to inform him that they had passed their final high school examinations[…]

   2024 July 5, Mervyn Coetzee, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam, Trauma, Injustice and Identity: Investigating an Egalitarian and Autoethnographic Approach to Analysing Students’ Personal Language Narratives, Ethics International Press, →ISBN, page 195

1. adjectivenot comparableobsoleteparticiplelater chiefly ScotlandMatriculated.

   The fame matryculate Of poetes laureate.

   c. 1528, John Skelton, A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late, Etc.; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC

plural matriculates

1. A person admitted to membership in a society or college.First known use 1712

   Synonyms: matriculant