Word.ws English Dictionary

legacy student

legacy student noun: a student who is admitted to a school (often a college or university) primarily because one or both of their parents are alumni of the same institution.

Noun

legacy student (plural legacy students)

  1. A student who is admitted to a school (often a college or university) primarily because one or both of their parents are alumni of the same institution.

Forms of legacy student

plurallegacy students

Questions about legacy student

What does legacy student mean?
Legacy student means a student who is admitted to a school (often a college or university) primarily because one or both of their parents are alumni of the same institution.
What part of speech is legacy student?
Legacy student is a noun.
What is the plural of legacy student?
The plural of legacy student is legacy students.

Words near legacy student in the dictionary

  1. legacy Oscar
  2. legacy Oscars
  3. legacy press
  4. legacy sequel
  5. legacy sequels
  6. legacy student
  7. legacy students
  8. legacy system
  9. legacy systems
  10. legacy-free
  11. legacyquel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: legacy student (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “legacy student.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/legacy_student. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.