COED Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

coed

noun

Definition of coed

as in student

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Noun

Hundreds of students, friends, family and community members gathered for a candlelight vigil at North Side High School on Thursday evening to honor Niño, who died of cancer just a few weeks after being diagnosed.

— Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Nov. 2026
The legislation preserves legitimate promotional offers, including loyalty rewards, student discounts, and veteran discounts.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of student

Noun

There are a lot of alternative spaces and really interesting young voices coming out of undergraduate and graduate programs in the city.

— Adam Davidson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Until her 20s, this was Lembke’s preferred route, one that led to a Yale undergraduate degree and a medical degree and residencies at Stanford.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of undergraduate

Noun

The fifth-year senior, who played at both Auburn and Texas State before enrolling at Pittsburgh in January, threw his second touchdown pass as a collegian.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The 5-foot-10, 170-pound Blue Valley West graduate instead on Saturday had to settle for being the first collegian to score a touchdown in the tradition-rich facility that opened in 1923.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of collegian

Noun

What Solar Eclipses Reveal About the Corona On the Pico Trigaza mountain in Spain, two postgraduate researchers used a laser to get a rough, initial alignment for the tracking mount of an optical instrument.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
After graduating from the University of Puerto Rico in 1953, Zeno received a postgraduate scholarship to study at the École du Louvre in Paris.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of postgraduate

Noun

Anti-war campaigners have released a teaching handbook urging educators to rethink how children learn about conflict, with activities aimed at pupils from first grade through high school.

— Rich Percival, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
After her parents die in mysterious circumstances, Miriam Basconi is enrolled at Alstroemerias Academy, an elite school run by the cruel Headmistress Hemlock, where pupils disappear after dark and strange men lurk.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of pupil

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