undergrad

noun

un·​der·​grad ˈən-dər-ˌgrad How to pronounce undergrad (audio)

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Idaho investigators found a three-person mixture of DNA under the 21-year-old University of Idaho undergrad's fingernails after she and three friends were killed in her off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022, according to court filings. Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2025 Originally a spinoff of the NBC sitcom, A Different World first centered on Denise’s life as an undergrad at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. Emily Krauser, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025 Wei Zhou, a 54-year-old parent in Beijing, sent her eldest son to the U.S. as an undergrad. Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025 After the talk, he was approached by a graduate student named Ian Mertz (opens a new tab), who’d fallen in love with catalytic computing five years earlier after learning about it as an impressionable young undergrad. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undergrad

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of undergrad was in 1827

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“Undergrad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undergrad. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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