undergraduate
/ˌʌndɚɡɹˈædʒəwət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
adj
Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It’s commonly cited that undergraduates are significantly smarter than average, with IQs ranging from 115 to 130. […] The decline in undergraduate IQs might just be another indication that the worth of a college degree has been hollowed out over time."
- "After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English graduate English undergraduate From under- + graduate.