undergraduate

noun

un·der·grad·u·ate ˌən-dər-ˈgra-jə-wət

-ˌwāt;

-ˈgraj-wət

Synonyms of undergraduate next

: a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree

undergraduate adjective

Example Sentences

a group of college undergraduates

Recent Examples on the Web Miles studied theatre at Yale twice, first as an undergraduate and then as a master’s student in the class of 1994. —

Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022 Wahl is from Mission, Kansas, and attended Princeton University as an undergraduate. —

Dennis Romero, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2022 McCarthy grew up in Meriden, attended the Hartt School as an undergraduate and was living in Madison shortly before the COVID epidemic began. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2022 As an undergraduate, future President Nixon played football at Whittier College. —

Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022 The son of two Stanford law professors attended MIT as an undergraduate from 2010 to 2014. —

Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022 As an undergraduate, Thor Westergaard BS’21 was unsure that electrical engineering was the right major for him. —

Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2022 While studying as an undergraduate in Iran, she was suspended from her university in the aftermath of pro-democracy protests in 2009. —

Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022 Nyong’o attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, as an undergraduate, studying film and African studies. —

Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022 See More

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