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undergraduate

undergraduate noun: a student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

Noun

undergraduate (plural undergraduates)

  1. A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
    • Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025
    • It’s commonly cited that undergraduates are significantly smarter than average, with IQs ranging from 115 to 130. […] The decline in undergraduate IQs might just be another indication that the worth of a college degree has been hollowed out over time.2024 January 23, Ross Pomeroy, “Why College Students' Average IQ Has Fallen 17 Points Since 1939”, in RealClearScience, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2024

Adjective

undergraduate (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.
    • After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing.
    Synonyms:
    pregraduate

undergraduate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

undergraduate in Hindi

student at a university who has not yet received a degree
पूर्वस्नातक pūrvasnātak

undergraduate in Tamil

இளநிலை பயில் மாணவர், பட்டமுன் மாணவர், பயிலும் பட்டதாரி, இளங்கலை மாணவர்

undergraduate in Urdu

انڈرگریجویٹ, انڈر گریجویٹ

undergraduate in Bengali

অস্নাতক
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undergraduate in Telugu
అండర్ గ్రాడ్యుయేట్, అండర్గ్రాడ్యుయేట్, అండర్ గ్రాడ్యుయేషన్
undergraduate in Malayalam
ഡിഗ്രിപാസ്സായിട്ടില്ലാത്തയാൾ
undergraduate in Kannada
ಪಟ್ಟೆಳಸುಗ, ಪದವಿ ಪಡೆಯದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಪದವಿಪೂರ್ವ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಪಡೆದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಪದವಿ ಕೆಳಗಿನ
undergraduate in Punjabi
ਅੰਡਰਗ੍ਰੈਜੁਏਟ, ਅੰਡਰ ਗਰੈਜੂਏਟ, ਅੰਡਰ ਗ੍ਰੈਜੂਏਟ
undergraduate in Gujarati
પૂર્વસ્નાતક pūrvasnātak, ઉપસ્નાતક upasnātak
undergraduate in Malay
prasiswazah
undergraduate in Vietnamese
đại học

Examples of undergraduate in a sentence

  • I got my undergraduate degree from the ‘tute.
  • Rudisill used 25 months and 14 days of his Montgomery benefits to help fund his undergraduate degree.
  • Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16.

All 35 example sentences with undergraduate

Synonyms of undergraduate

Antonyms

Forms of undergraduate

pluralundergraduates

Plural of undergraduate: undergraduates

Origin of undergraduate

From under- + graduate.

Words formed from undergraduate

Questions about undergraduate

What does undergraduate mean?
Undergraduate means a student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
What is undergraduate in Hindi?
Undergraduate in Hindi is पूर्वस्नातक (pūrvasnātak). See Undergraduate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is undergraduate?
Undergraduate can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of undergraduate?
The plural of undergraduate is undergraduates.

Words near undergraduate in the dictionary

  1. undergraded
  2. undergrades
  3. undergrading
  4. undergrads
  5. undergraduacy
  6. undergraduate
  7. undergraduatedom
  8. undergraduateness
  9. undergraduates
  10. undergraduateship
  11. undergraduatish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: undergraduate (page history and authors); undergraduate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undergraduate (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undergraduate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undergraduate (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undergraduate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undergraduate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undergraduate (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ઉપસ્નાતક (Gujarati) (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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