COLLEGIANS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

collegians

noun

plural of collegian

as in undergraduates

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nonstudents

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Noun

In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Princeton undergraduates are helping the organization develop standards for post-mortem digital privacy and death in custody.

— Rachel Brooks, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of undergraduates

Noun

Several readers have spoken of appreciation for the columns of mine that intersected sports and society, such as excoriating the NFL for its blackballing of Colin Kaepernick.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
The urban centers in this neck of the woods are also very large and—at the risk of chafing readers in the other three-quarters of the country—our biggest towns are also tremendously important.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of readers

Noun

Ahmed doesn’t merely document the decisions that led President Biden and his aides to arm and rationalize what leading human rights organizations and legal scholars now consider a genocide.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
In the twenty-tens, legal scholars began turning their attention to the law of the robot.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of scholars

Noun

In June, The Times of London reported that private schools throughout the UK have lost 30,000 pupils since January 2025, and about 100 independent schools have closed entirely.

— Ashley Baker, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
Meloni did not specify the exact cap but said the government would also require mandatory Italian-language lessons for parents of foreign pupils who struggle to integrate.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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