undergrad

noun

un·​der·​grad ˈən-dər-ˌgrad How to pronounce undergrad (audio)

Examples of undergrad in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Dozens of students have been arrested at Yale, and hundreds of protestors, both faculty and undergrads, were arrested at New York University. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024 Khanna – who was born in Pennsylvania, did his undergrad at the University of Chicago and got his law degree at Yale – had forgotten his boots. USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024 Related Articles After pandemic pause, Caltech restores standardized testing requirement for incoming undergrads Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists US tuberculosis cases were at their the highest level in a decade in 2023 First, the virus is much less deadly. Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024 Chang, 33, traces his activist roots to his time as an undergrad at UC Berkeley more than a decade ago, and has spent the last six years working as an aid to Bartlett, who represents South Berkeley in District 3, and former District 7 Councilmember Kriss Worthington. Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024 Graham was about to launch a startup incubator called Y Combinator, and he was impressed by the young undergrads. Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 The problem begins in undergrad, if not long before. Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024 Everybody loves cholent, even those who don’t, and a slow-cooker-full could easily feed 12 hungry undergrads without breaking the bank. Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024 Her past involvement with marijuana includes a run-in with law enforcement: as an undergrad at Penn State, in 2010, she was arrested for smoking weed in her dorm room. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of undergrad was in 1827

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“Undergrad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undergrad. Accessed 4 May. 2024.

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