Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university.
- noun One who is admitted as a student to a college or university.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enter in a register; register; enroll; especially, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling one's name in a register.
- To become a member of any body or society, especially a college or university, by having one's name entered in a register.
- Matriculated; admitted; enrolled.
- noun One who has been admitted to membership of a body, as a college or university, by enrolment in its register.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
- adjective Matriculated.
- transitive verb To enroll; to enter in a register
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
enroll as amember of abody , especially of acollege oruniversity - verb intransitive To
be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enroll as a student
- noun someone who has been admitted to a college or university
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In the early '80s Adani, a matriculate from a Gujarati-medium school, went to Mumbai where he started working in a diamond-processing unit and steadily made his way up, eventually running his own businesses.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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However, that's starting to change as more mature titles matriculate to the Wii.
G4 TV - TheFeed 2009
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"matriculate" -- leading him from one to another of the professors, who awed the lad with their preternatural dignity, but it was a sad blow when he was told that in everything but mathematics he must go to the preparatory department until the second session of the term -- the
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891
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Mr Joynes moved as a substitute for Mr Carrs proposition to strike out all after the word "matriculate" so as to require the students of Theological Seminaries to pay the usual fees for instruction and for the use of the Library and public rooms.
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Columbia does not matriculate a hundred students a year but eighty -- the number reported by the University in its 2007 graduate school admissions summary.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Columbia does not matriculate a hundred students a year but eighty -- the number reported by the University in its 2007 graduate school admissions summary.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Which makes this obvious: High school players announcing where they'll matriculate should be turned into one big TV show.
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Additionally, Dr. Li has been a mentor to students who are a part of the program, which begins in high school before students matriculate.
Jump-Starting Careers in Science, Medicine Melanie Grayce West 2012
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Columbia does not matriculate a hundred students a year but eighty -- the number reported by the University in its 2007 graduate school admissions summary.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Columbia does not matriculate a hundred students a year but eighty -- the number reported by the University in its 2007 graduate school admissions summary.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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