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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alumni
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alumni of Carleton College
▪ Berkeley alumni
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 7, 000 alumni will pay Northwestern $ 1, 565 each for a package of air-fare and game tickets.
▪ All alumni who have returned a questionnaire indicating that they are teachers or careers advisers will receive an invitation.
▪ But many of these same teachers were alumni of City; they revered the school and what it stood for.
▪ Last year's alumni survey has told us a lot.
▪ Seek private sector and alumni support in increasing scholarship funds.
▪ The alumni don't want to hear it, but the previous coaching regime vastly oversold the goods.
▪ The Office is now up and running and is beginning to provide support to alumni in a number of ways.
▪ The strong football season, however, has generated more alumni giving, albeit earmarked for athletics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alumni

Alumnus \A*lum"nus\, n.; pl. Alumni. [L., fr. alere to nourish.] A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alumni

see alumnus.

Wiktionary
alumni

n. 1 (plural of alumnus nodot=1 English)Category:English plurals; (non-gloss definition: indicates both males and females, or males only.) 2 (context often proscribed English) An individual alumnus or alumna.

WordNet
alumnus
  1. n. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumna, alum, graduate, grad]

  2. [also: alumni (pl)]

alumni

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Usage examples of "alumni".

Center in Providence, in concave recesses along the Pizzitola tunnels between special entrance and Visitors' locker room, even in a specially enlarged and sensually-appointed locker next to the power forward's locker in the VLR, all prepared like the Brown cheerleaders and Pep Squad, who've been induced to do the game pantyless, electrolysized and splits-prone to help lend a pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere to the power forward's whole playing-environment prepared to make the penultimate sacrifice for squad, school, and influential members of the Brown Alumni Bruins Boosters Assoc.

An Annual collection of short stories, essays, poems and writings could be published of collected works by residents, Alumni, and relatives, or a guest celebrity or two.

Marketable job skills are of paramount importance to the self sufficiency and survivability of Alumni.

It is better that Alumni return home then to return back to a life of addiction or back to the streets.

If this alumni office is anything like ours, they'd be sure to have the man's latest address to hit him up for money.

The alumni office was in the main administration building on the second floor.

After leaving the alumni office, Marissa stopped Wendy in the stairwell.

While her idea to encourage woman to enroll in the school would be praised by some alumni, Jeff suspected the majority would be stunned by tonight's announcement.

It would be nice if intimidating size wasn't one of the major factors in a male alumni getting offered the male live-in Staff job here, but there you go.

Residents have a pretty good idea that their alumni counselors basically rat them out in toto at each Staff meeting, which is why counselling sessions tend to be so incredibly dull that only really grateful giving Ennet alumni are willing to serve as counselors.

For that matter, the alumni don't want Grollier to be associated with break-ins and shooting, either.

The alumni foundation is on the phone to him all the time, sucking up to him, offering special tickets, inviting him to exclusive athletic banquets, wanting more money.

And if Derrick Meecham didn't go to Yale, I'll ask them to contact the alumni foundations at the other Ivy League colleges.

Grollier boasts governors, senators, congressmen, even a President of the United States among its distinguished alumni.

As soon as he heard from the alumni association, he phoned the police and sent them to the address the man gave you.