alum
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4.0
- noun
- /əˈlʌm/
- Informal
:
exalumno
- As graduation nears, students can contact alums and seek advice and help in the job hunt.
- alums and students
- alums help
And I have to add, I too am an alum of GSAS and very proud of it.
- And I have to add, I too am an alum of GSAS and very proud of it.
- And Lewis was he used to play for them and he's an alum.
- And what's this Saturday Night Live alum who comes in as as Shane's mother, Molly Shannon.
- You know, Sundance likes to bring back a lot of their past alums.
- He's AY Combinator alum and a popular speaker on food innovation at places like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT.
- You cannot kill an alum from Pittsburgh, from Mount Lebanon.
- We also have non MIT people here, several of whom some of whom are MIT alums.
- And I think a lot of people when they are trying to say I'm this proud, this proud alum of this proud this or Manchester United fan.
Examples
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And Dean Berman is an alum.
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A panel of several alums speaking to an introductory physics class could allay student concerns about job possibilities.
Academic text (2003) -
I'm an alum, you know.
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In the College Park program, not one alum asked for any expense money.
Academic text (2003) -
Visit key high schools with a team of faculty members plus an alum.
Academic text (2003) -
But a lot of these folks are Stanford alum and Stanford connections.
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You're a Harvard alum, right?
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For example, almost every alum urged students to hone their writing and speaking skills.
Academic text (2003) -
Drummond is sixty years old, an alum of Yale Law, with thirty-six years of trial experience.
Fiction book (1995) -
As graduation nears, students can contact alums and seek advice and help in the job hunt.
Synonyms
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3.4
A person who has finished a course at a college or university and received a degree
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3.0
A person who has finished a course at a college or university
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4.7
A man who graduated from a school or university
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6.3
A woman who graduated from a school or university
Compounds
- Specialized
A white crystal people use to clean water, help dye cloth, and make skin less oily
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word alum is a short form of the Latin alumnus, from a root meaning 'to feed' or 'nourish'. So an alum is someone a school helped 'grow', which is why it now means a graduate.