matriculate

Verb

matriculate (third-person singular simple present matriculates, present participle matriculating, simple past and past participle matriculated)

1. (transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
2. (broadly, often, transitive) To join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.).
   • As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs."2024 November 30 (last accessed), “Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace”, in HRC Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024
3. (intransitive, stative) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
4. (proscribed) To graduate (from a school or course of study).
   • [...] fewer than 100 indigenous Namibians have matriculated (graduated) annually from secondary school. In 1982 the number fell to 20.2004 May 13, Robert I. Rotberg, Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 151
   • One of six distinguished brothers who matriculated from the school, he had enlisted together with two of his brothers, Christian and Gustav (or Gus).2014 November 14, Barry Gough, From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN

Adjective

matriculate (not comparable)

1. (adjective, error-misspelling, obsolete, participle, later chiefly Scotland) Matriculated.
   • The fame matryculate Of poetes laureate.c. 1528, John Skelton, A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late, Etc.; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC

Noun

US/məˈtɹɪkjəlɪt/UK/məˈtɹɪkjʊlɪt/

matriculate (plural matriculates)

1. A person admitted to membership in a society or college.

   Synonyms:

   matriculant