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CURRICULUM
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Irregular inflected form: curricula
I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
