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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A college or university student who has not yet received a bachelor's or similar degree.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of undergraduates.
  • adjective Having the standing of an undergraduate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A student or member of a university or college who has not taken his first degree.
  • Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or undergraduates collectively: as, undergraduate studies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course. Contrasted with graduate student.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a university student who has not yet received a first degree

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