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alumnus

noun as in graduate (masc.)

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Frustration about the uncertain future also vexed some alumni.

Very few campuses had the resources to extend credit to students in the hopes that alumni would earn enough after graduation to pay back the cost of earning their degrees.

Those alumni all graduated on time from high school, most to study at a two- or four-year college, and others to join the military or begin trade work.

Thousands of law school alumni and students push for disbarment of Sens.

One of the important things that I would like to do as dean is to continue to engage alumni.

She says she met Cosby, a Temple alumnus and big-time donor to the university, in November 2002.

A former House Budget chairman and Fox News alumnus, Kasich was a libertarian leaning fiscal conservative before it was cool.

The best known was Brotherhood alumnus Sayyid Qutb, whom the Egyptian state executed in 1966.

The celebrated nanny college counts as its most famous (if fictional) alumnus Mary Poppins.

Hayes was very much a creature of the left, a proud alumnus of The Nation and In These Times.

Alumnus, al-um′nus, n. one educated at a college is called an alumnus of it:—pl.

It is a recollection blended of many feelings, that which the recurring Commencement brings to the alumnus.

The University, however, shares the attachment of the alumnus.

He didn't look like a Dumbarton Oaks product: I thought he was more likely an alumnus of some private detective agency.

Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alumnus, such as: alum, graduate, old grad, and postgraduate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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