undergraduate

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undergraduate

noun undergraduates

  1. A student at a university who has not yet received a degree. Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate. After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing.

    Similar: pregraduate

Opposite: postgraduate, graduate

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: undergrad, student, college, graduate, university, degree, matriculation, baccalaureate, associate, licence, bsc, academic, primary, first, prime, middle

adjective

Opposite: postgraduate, graduate

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noun student at a university who has not yet received a degree

Españolestudiante universitario no licenciado
中文本科生 běnkēshēng
हिन्दीपूर्वस्नातक pūrvasnātak
Portuguêsestudante de graduação, graduando
Françaisétudiant de licence
DeutschStudent
Italianolaureando
Ελληνικάπροπτυχιακός proptychiakós
Русскийстуде́нт studént

adj of being an undergraduate

中文本科 běnkē
Portuguêsde graduação
Tiếng Việtđại học

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undergraduate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/undergraduate

Chicago

"undergraduate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/undergraduate.

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@misc{undergraduate_2026,
  title = {undergraduate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/undergraduate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}