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undergrad en · NOUN

Etymology

Clipping of undergraduate.

Meanings

1. (informal) An undergraduate.
   • Within a few days of our reading the report of the vandalish statue-burnings of the Oxford undergrads, we met with the announcement of a wholesale destruction of idols by the natives of Madagascar. 1870, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 229, page 250:
2. (informal, uncountable) Undergraduate education; the status or period of being an undergraduate student.
   • Because it was a French bank, that seemed like a nod to my passion for languages, which had been my major in undergrad. 2023, Liz Elting, Dream Big and Win: How I Built a $1 Billion Business and You Can Too, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
   • I even created my own major in undergrad, a major I called “Writing for Sequential Art,” which was essentially scriptwriting for comics. 2020 January 30, Raymond Fleischmann, “Q&A: Raymond Fleischmann, Author of 'How Quickly She Disappears'”, in The Nerd Daily:

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