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

The University of Nevada, where many of the 20,000 undergraduates moved into their housing this weekend, was just outside the evacuation zone Sunday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Harvard University’s policy capping A grades among undergraduates doesn’t officially start for another year, but students heading back to school this fall are already fretting over the changes.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of undergraduates

Noun

As Coca-Cola works to automate dirty soda and refreshers, CNBC's Amelia Lucas takes readers inside the secretive labs where the soda maker is planning its next wave of innovation.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
Risam takes readers back to the dawn of data, charting the course of human recordkeeping from Mesopotamian farming to present-day surveillance technology.

— Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of readers

Noun

This coexistence of one god and many gods may initially appear contradictory, but a clearer picture emerges by tracing the history of how Hindu texts, traditions, and thinkers—and some Western scholars—have answered this question.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
But legal scholars say those cases are different because the doctors weren't in Louisiana and never fled the state and became fugitives.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of scholars

Noun

Their heads are broad and coppery in color, and their eyes have vertical, catlike pupils.

— Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026
Our eyes collect light through our pupils, tiny openings only a few millimeters in diameter, and a lens inside our eyes focuses the light onto an optic nerve.

— Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

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