Library / English Dictionary

UNDERGRADUATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university student who has not yet received a first degree

Synonyms:

undergrad; undergraduate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

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 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)