UNDERGRADUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undergraduate mean? 

• UNDERGRADUATE (noun)
  The noun UNDERGRADUATE has 1 sense:

1. a university student who has not yet received a first degree

  Familiarity information: UNDERGRADUATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERGRADUATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university student who has not yet received a first degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

undergrad; undergraduate

Hypernyms ("undergraduate" is a kind of...):

college boy; college man; collegian (a student (or former student) at a college or university)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undergraduate"):

co-ed; college girl (a female student at a coeducational college or university)

lowerclassman; underclassman (an undergraduate who is not yet a senior)

senior (an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation)

 Context examples 

Generally, a 4-year undergraduate degree is required to be eligible for entry into a JD program.

(Doctor of Law, NCI Thesaurus)

Another way to engage your mind is to sign up for undergraduate or graduate classes to get your degree.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.

(Associate Degree, NCI Thesaurus)

He was not generally popular among the undergraduates, though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Continuing Umbrella of Research Experience for Underrepresented Minorities Program (CURE) is a new strategy being implemented by the National Cancer Institute to expose minorities to cancer research at the high school and undergraduate levels.

(Continuing Umbrella of Research Experience for Underserved Minorities (CURE) Program, NCI Thesaurus)

A bachelor's degree awarded to someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in psychosocial evaluation and intervention, including therapy, to effect a change in the feelings, attitudes and behavior of a client, whether an individual, group or community.

(Bachelor of Social Work, NCI Thesaurus)

Brutality I had experienced, but it was the brutality of the intellect—the cutting sarcasm of Charley Furuseth, the cruel epigrams and occasional harsh witticisms of the fellows at the Bibelot, and the nasty remarks of some of the professors during my undergraduate days.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They hold titles such as chief nursing officer, nursing director, chief operating officer of health care facilities and systems, nurse manager, consultant in nursing administration and management, dean, and director of faculty in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs.

(Nurse Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)

With Saturn in your ninth house for the past two years, if you’ve been studying for your undergraduate or graduate degree (for example), you may have found your teachers quite demanding, but you have been learning from them in a way you’ve never learned before.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)