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UNDERGRADUATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university student who has not yet received a first degree
Synonyms:
undergrad; undergraduate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("undergraduate" is a kind of...):
college boy; college man; collegian (a student (or former student) at a college or university)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undergraduate"):
co-ed; college girl (a female student at a coeducational college or university)
lowerclassman; underclassman (an undergraduate who is not yet a senior)
senior (an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation)
Context examples:
We got up, and she explained that we were going to find the host—I had never met him, she said, and it was making me uneasy. The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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