undergraduate

noun

un·​der·​grad·​u·​ate ˌən-dər-ˈgra-jə-wət How to pronounce undergraduate (audio)
-ˌwāt;
-ˈgraj-wət
: a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree
undergraduate adjective

Examples of undergraduate in a Sentence

a group of college undergraduates
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Officials at the college of roughly 2,800 undergraduates initially notified students on Sunday about Smith, whose disappearance was reported to Middlebury police earlier that afternoon. Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025 The following insights are drawn from Shapiro’s remarks during a guest lecture in my undergraduate Strategy and Organization class at McGill University. Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 24 Oct. 2025 For the class of 2024, CCS claimed to have an 80 percent undergraduate job placement rate and a 91 percent graduate job placement rate. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025 According to an obituary published by Austin Funeral & Cremation Services, Tate was born and raised in Nashville and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with an undergraduate degree in business. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undergraduate

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First Known Use

1630, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of undergraduate was in 1630

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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undergraduate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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undergraduate

noun
un·​der·​grad·​u·​ate ˌən-dər-ˈgraj-(ə-)wət How to pronounce undergraduate (audio)
-ə-ˌwāt
: a student at a college or university who has not yet received a degree

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