undergraduate

Meaning

1. A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
2. Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English graduate English undergraduate From under- + graduate.

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