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collegebound

collegebound adjective: bound for college; soon to attend college.

Adjective

collegebound (not comparable)

  1. Bound for college; soon to attend college.
    • “I urge you all to argue with your teachers, argue with your parents,” Sanders told a group of about 60 students at South Burlington High School — generally liberal, affluent and collegebound — one afternoon in mid-December.2007 January 21, Mark Leibovich, “The Socialist Senator”, in New York Times

Origin of collegebound

From college + -bound.

Questions about collegebound

What does collegebound mean?
Collegebound means bound for college; soon to attend college.
What part of speech is collegebound?
Collegebound is an adjective.

Words near collegebound in the dictionary

  1. college-age
  2. college-aged
  3. college-goer
  4. college-goers
  5. college-ruled
  6. collegebound
  7. collegeboy
  8. collegeboys
  9. colleged
  10. collegegoer
  11. collegegoers

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