Meanings
plural undergrads
- 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 - 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, →ISBN1 more example
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
- informalnot comparableUndergraduate.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna university student who has not yet received a first degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Clipping of undergraduate.
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Cite this entry
undergrad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undergrad
“undergrad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undergrad. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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