alumnuses

English

Noun

alumnuses

1. plural of alumnus
   • 1867, Ferd V. D. Garretson, Carmina Yalensia: A Complete and Accurate Collection of Yale College Songs with Piano Accompaniment, New York: Taintor Brothers, Parting Song., page 21:

     2 No more for us yon tuneful bell shall ring for morning prayers, / No more to long Biennial we’ll mount you attic stairs; / Our recitations all are passed—Alumnuses you know, / We’ll swell the praises long and loud of Alma Mater O— / Oh! Alma Mater O, &c.

   • 1920, Columbia Alumni News, volume 12, page 151:

     This gentleman, whom you will immediately recognize as one of our oldest Alumnuses, is Mr. A. Squirrel who will accept a peanut from a Columbia professor of higher mathematics as quickly as he will from a Freshman, which shows that he gets along pretty well as far as being a squirrel goes, but hasn’t much sense otherwise.

   • 1921, Ohio State University Monthly, volume 12, number 6, page 25:

     BEHOLD—ye oldest and most faithfulest of the alumnuses.

   • 1972, Polish Scientific Periodicals, page 75:

     Prototypical rehabilitation equipment produced by alumnuses of Technical School for Workers at Bielsko-Biała

   • 1989, Dan Jenkins, You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 27:

     And if he accepts any favors, large or small, from “overzealous alumnuses,” he runs the risk of seeing his school put on probation, receiving sanctions, or even getting the “death penalty,” which means no football program for two years—that thing SMU received in 1987.