CURRICULUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: curricula

Meaning:

An integrated course of academic studies

Example:

he was admitted to a new program at the university

Synonyms:

course of study; curriculum; program; programme; syllabus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("curriculum" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Meronyms (parts of "curriculum"):

course of lectures (a series of lectures dealing with a subject)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curriculum"):

crash course; crash program; crash programme (a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency))

reading program (a program designed to teach literacy skills)

degree program (a course of study leading to an academic degree)

Derivation:

curricular (of or relating to an academic course of study)