alumnus

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  1. noun A male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university.
  2. usage note
    Alumnus and alumna both come from Latin and preserve Latin plurals. Alumnus is a masculine noun whose plural is alumni, and alumna is a feminine noun whose plural is alumnae. Coeducational institutions usually use alumni for graduates of both sexes. But those who object to masculine forms in such cases may prefer the phrase alumni and alumnae or the form alumnae/i, which is the choice of many women's colleges that have begun to admit men.

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  • He was an alumnus, and he imagined he was rich enough by most people ;s standards. —  In His Own Defense
  • The No. 2 leader of the Kentucky House and another high profile Morehead State University alumnus are among the major candidates for five Democratic leadership positions up for grabs in the 2009 General Assembly session which opens here Tuesday, Jan. 6. —  Morehead State University - News
  • The FIU alumnus is always looking for potential clients as the owner of S2NET Inc, a high-end telecommunications company based in Sunrise, Florida.
  • UNC's best known alumnus is the author James Michener, who died in 1990, thus sparing us from
  • The 1996 Penn alumnus is a San Francisco hedge fund manager by day and a chef by night; he created a Facebook group aiming to fix the high-rise elevators and an internship program for Management and Technology students. —  The Daily Pennsylvanian
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  1. Latin, pupil, from alere, to nourish; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin alumnus, feminine alumna, a nursling, foster-child, pupil, disciple, orig. present participle passive (-umnus = Greek όμενος) of alere, nourish, nurse, foster: see aliment. Cf. alma mater.
 

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