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sizar

sizar noun: an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.

Noun

sizar (plural sizars)

  1. (UK) An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.

Forms of sizar

pluralsizars
alternative formsizer

Origin of sizar

An alteration of sizer, from size (“fixed portion”) + -er.

Words formed from sizar

Questions about sizar

What does sizar mean?
Sizar means an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.
What part of speech is sizar?
Sizar is a noun.
What is the plural of sizar?
The plural of sizar is sizars.

Words near sizar in the dictionary

  1. siyum
  2. sizable
  3. sizableness
  4. sizably
  5. sizal
  6. sizar
  7. sizars
  8. sizarship
  9. sizarships
  10. size
  11. size difference

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