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ALUMNUS
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Irregular inflected form: alumni
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
Synonyms:
alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("alumnus" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alumnus"):
Ivy Leaguer (a student or graduate at an Ivy League school)
old boy (a former male pupil of a school)
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