UNDERGRADUATE Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

undergraduate

noun

Definition of undergraduate

as in student

a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree a group of college undergraduates

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Recent Examples of undergraduate Morse-Bills completed her undergraduate degree at the University of South Florida and earned her Juris Doctor at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing. — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 Owens not only lacked an undergraduate degree but did poorly in school, where she was described as a hopeless case. — Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026 The university also welcomed 3,938 new first-time undergraduate students, its largest incoming class to date, with 2,305 of those students being Idaho residents. — Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2026 The University of Connecticut has released their Summer 2026 undergraduate and graduate lists, with more than a few students local to the Nutmeg state. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for undergraduate

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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

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

Historians, scholars and philosophers are stepping in to offer some solutions and warnings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
In 1709, the French scholar Antoine Galland was attempting to add a new volume to his wildly popular translation of One Thousand and One Nights, the first edition of its kind for a European audience.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026

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