undergraduate

English

Etymology

under- +‎ graduate

Pronunciation

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Noun

undergraduate (plural undergraduates)

1. A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

Translations

student at a university who has not yet received a degree

• Bulgarian: студе́нт m (studént)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本科生 (zh) (běnkēshēng)

• Finnish: perusopiskelija
• French: étudiant de licence
• Galician: universitario (gl) m, universitaria f
• German: Student (de) m
• Greek: προπτυχιακός (el) m (proptychiakós)
• Hindi: पूर्वस्नातक (hi) m (pūrvasnātak)
• Hungarian: egyetemista (hu), egyetemi hallgató (hu), felsőoktatási intézmény hallgatója
• Irish: fochéimí m
• Manx: fo-cheimee m
• Portuguese: estudante de graduação m or f, graduando (pt) m (especially one in the last year)
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént) (университе́та, ко́лледжа)
• Spanish: estudiante universitario no licenciado, estudiante (es), estudiante de pregrado m or f, estudiantes de pregrado m pl or f pl
• Swedish: student (sv) c
• Turkish: lisans öğrencisi, üniversite öğrencisi

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 (unusual)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “student, adjective”): postgraduate
• (antonym(s) of “student”): graduate

Coordinate terms

• graduand

Translations

of being an undergraduate

• Bulgarian: студентски (studentski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本科 (zh) (běnkē)

• Finnish: perusopiskelijan (attributively)
• Portuguese: de graduação
• Vietnamese: đại học (vi)