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extracurricula

extracurricula is the plural of extracurriculum.

Meaning of extracurriculum

Noun

extracurriculum (plural extracurricula or extracurriculums)

  1. The activities and groups, clubs, and societies that are sponsored or regulated by an educational institution but which are not part of the academic curriculum.
    • In their extracurriculums the outstanding schools are distinguished by the following practices:1933, Francis Trow Spaulding, Orie Isaac Frederick, Leonard V. Koos, The Reorganization of Secondary Education: In Three Parts, page 285
    Synonyms:
    cocurriculum

Questions about extracurricula

What is extracurricula the plural of?
Extracurricula is the plural of extracurriculum.

Words near extracurricula in the dictionary

  1. extracts from the criminal record
  2. extracts from the judicial record
  3. extracts the urine
  4. extracultural
  5. extracurial
  6. extracurricula
  7. extracurricular
  8. extracurricularly
  9. extracurriculars
  10. extracurriculum
  11. extracurriculums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extracurricula (page history and authors); extracurriculum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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