Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In British universities, a student who has passed his examinations for a degree, but has not yet been graduated.
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- noun A
university student who has completed the requirements for, but has not yet been awarded, a particulardegree .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reading the small print, I think perhaps you have to be a graduate rather than a graduand*, so that may let pdc and others out.
Klutz pdc 2003
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Hierdie inrigting en sy ere-graduand kom uit sterk uiteenlopende geskiedenisse en agtergronde.
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Hierdie inrigting en sy ere-graduand kom uit sterk uiteenlopende geskiedenisse en agtergronde.
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The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the graduand.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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On two occasions I have attended such ceremonies as a graduand - one in Trinity College Dublin and the other in Cambridge.
Irish Blogs University Blog 2010
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