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ALUMNUS (alumni)

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• ALUMNUS (noun)
The noun ALUMNUS has 1 sense:

1. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Familiarity information: ALUMNUS used as a noun is very rare.

• ALUMNUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

alumna; alumnus; graduate; grad; alum

Hypernyms ("alumnus" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alumnus"):

Ivy Leaguer (a student or graduate at an Ivy League school)

old boy (a former male pupil of a school)

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