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Plural of undergraduate

regular plural

The plural of undergraduate is undergraduates.

Forms of undergraduate

Singularundergraduate
Pluralundergraduates
Countablecountable

Undergraduates in a sentence

  • Bradley had to learn that headmasterly wrath did not work on undergraduates like Charles Cree.2008, Robin Darwall-Smith, A History of University College, Oxford. From the entry headmasterly
  • Undergraduates at Oxford University were playfully fond of Spooner, whom they nicknamed "the Spoo".2007, Michael Erard, Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, page 16. From the entry spoonerism
  • Undergraduates are grouped in rather sameish groups to do rather sameish things.2004, Hannah Adcock, Twentysomething: A Survivor's Guide. From the entry sameish
  • Both UNR and UNLV have more female undergraduates than men overall.2000 June 20, Ben Rogers, “Engineering gender gap widens”, in CNN. From the entry UNLV
  • Undergraduates say they live on vampire time, sleeping in class, active after dark.1997, Anne Matthews, Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today, page 73. From the entry vampire time

Meaning of undergraduate

  1. noun A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

Full definition of undergraduate

Questions about the plural of undergraduate

What is the plural of undergraduate?
The plural of undergraduate is undergraduates.
Is undergraduate countable?
Undergraduate is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undergraduate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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