undergrad
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌɡræd/
- Informal
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estudiante universitario
- I started studying the brain in undergrad in this neuro immunology lab.
- undergrad student
- university undergrad
- undergrad and grad
So there's a lot of young folks, undergrads, grads, they're also young.
- So there's a lot of young folks, undergrads, grads, they're also young.
- I started studying the brain in undergrad in this neuro immunology lab.
- But it never ends, you know, once you go past your undergrad, it keeps going.
- Was it a suitable language to be given to computer science undergrads and specialist postgrads?
- And then after my undergrad, I was meant to stay in Oxford for a PhD.
- Like, I was about to start my fourth year of undergrad, right.
- There was no one placed between, you know, the, the undergrads with too much caffeine and the human race.
- OK, so predominant group graduate students and so undergrads.
- So when I was in undergrad, I had a professor that kept saying caveat.
- So she's she works in a building across the street and she was an undergrad here.
- And I, I took a Soviet film class my first year of undergrad and we watched this movie called Circus.
- I had a Swiss gear backpack throughout my entire career in college and undergrad.
Examples
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So I'm going to be a senior undergrad at USC.
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Now, Sharon was Vivian's roommate as an undergrad at Stanford.
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When I was an undergrad, I was pretty good.
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It's less that, but you know, it's less what you learn as an undergrad and it's more where you have a degree from.
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Um, I just finished my undergrad in interior design.
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So, uh, you were telling us about your plans after undergrad.
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What courses could you take an undergrad that would be helpful for actually running a law firm?
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The undergrads come to appreciate certain elements of teaching and learning that they had not considered before.
Academic text (2018) -
Sachs was an undergrad at the time, a liberal arts student with a very brilliant mind.
Fiction book (1995) -
During my time as an undergrad, I learned valuable skills that helped shape my career.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person who studies at a school or university
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1.0
A person studying at a college or university to get a first degree
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3.2
A student at a university who has not yet earned a first degree
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1.0
A person who studies at a university to get a degree
Surface Forms
Morphology
undergrad = undergraduate (transparent) = under + grad + undergraduate
Colloquial clipping of 'undergraduate' with unchanged meaning; learners familiar with 'undergraduate' or 'graduate' will recognize it.
Etymology
Undergrad is a short form of undergraduate, made from under- meaning 'below' and graduate meaning 'to get a degree'. So an undergrad is a student who is 'below' the graduate level and has not yet received a first degree.