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 particular degree.

Etymologies

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1882, from Medieval Latin graduandus, gerundive of graduare ("to graduate").

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Examples

  • 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

  • Hierdie inrigting en sy ere-graduand kom uit sterk uiteenlopende geskiedenisse en agtergronde.

    TOESPRAAK DEUR PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA BY DIE GELEENTHEID TER ONTVANGS VAN 'N ERE-GRAAD VAN DIE UNIVERSITEIT VAN PRETORIA 1997

  • Hierdie inrigting en sy ere-graduand kom uit sterk uiteenlopende geskiedenisse en agtergronde.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • 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

  • 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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