undergrad

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noun

An undergraduate.

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

nounundergrad (plural undergrads)

plural undergrads

  1. informalAn undergraduate.

    Within a few days of our reading the report of the vandalish statue-burnings of the Oxford undergrads, we met with the announcement of a wholesale destruction of idols by the natives of Madagascar.

    1870, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 229, page 250
  2. informaluncountableUndergraduate education; the status or period of being an undergraduate student.

    Because it was a French bank, that seemed like a nod to my passion for languages, which had been my major in undergrad.

    2023, Liz Elting, Dream Big and Win: How I Built a $1 Billion Business and You Can Too, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
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    I even created my own major in undergrad, a major I called “Writing for Sequential Art,” which was essentially scriptwriting for comics.

    2020 January 30, Raymond Fleischmann, “Q&A: Raymond Fleischmann, Author of 'How Quickly She Disappears'”, in The Nerd Daily
adjectiveundergrad (not comparable)
  1. informalnot comparableUndergraduate.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna university student who has not yet received a first degree

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

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