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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alumnus
noun
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▪ And that alumnus helped seal the deal.
▪ Change of this sort is probably what some administrators, cadets and alumni feared all along.
▪ Delta has an integrated system with capabilities for student administrative functions such as scheduling, grading, attendance and alumni development.
▪ For many City College alumni, it was.
▪ In studying their alumni fund-raising campaigns, administrators found female graduates had fewer ties to their alma maters.
▪ One Foxfire alumnus put it this way: Somehow I learned to write more creatively as a result of Foxfire...
▪ The following information about Birmingham alumni has been collected from recent news reports.
▪ Whenever she hits town, she enjoys picking with Rozum's fellow Summerdog alumnus Peter McLaughlin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alumnus

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
alumnus

1640s, from Latin alumnus "a pupil," literally "foster son," vestigial present passive participle of alere "to nourish" (see old), with ending akin to Greek -omenos. Plural is alumni. Fem. is alumna (1882), fem. plural alumnae.

Wiktionary
alumnus

n. 1 a male pupil or student 2 a male graduate 3 a student 4 a graduate

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)]

Wikipedia
Alumnus

An alumnus (; masculine, plural alumni ) or an alumna (; feminine, plural alumnae ) is a former student or pupil of a school, college, or university. Commonly, but not always, the word refers to a graduate of the educational institute in question. An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate, as well as a former student.

Usage examples of "alumnus".

And how can he in good conscience just rip off, swallow, digest and expel as his what an alumnus with a streaked orange face and removable hair has clearly seen first herself?

If a runner wanted to hide and develop a safe identity, pretending to be a Yale alumnus was a rotten idea, and wearing a Yale ring was a worse idea.

I heard was there was a rich alumnus who ordered them to shut it down.

Ken pulled in some alumnus chits, had him tutored, the boy took the SAT four times.

But nowhere on the web page did it make mention of its most famous and notorious alumnus, Joel Rifkin, the most savage serial killer in New York State history.

Harvard graduate identifying a brother alumnus, and in the face of such credentials Simon relaxed.

Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus, I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.

This measure of success was not calculated to displease our alumnus addictissimus.

Pissant of the Alumni Center, and Wilson himself looked like a compilation of the worst traits of every rich old alumnus Pissant had ever met.

Comparing them with the active alumni list, Parshall identified ten who were in the Massachusetts-to-Manhattan area.

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.