Matriculate
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person admitted to membership in a society or college.
- 2 someone who has been admitted to a college or university wordnet
- 1 To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university. transitive
- 2 enroll as a student wordnet
- 3 To join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.). broadly, often, transitive
"As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs.""
- 4 To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university. intransitive, stative
- 5 To graduate (from a school or course of study). proscribed
"[...] fewer than 100 indigenous Namibians have matriculated (graduated) annually from secondary school. In 1982 the number fell to 20."
- 1 Matriculated. adjective, error-misspelling, not-comparable, obsolete, participle
"The fame matryculate Of poetes laureate."
Example
More examples"As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs.""
Etymology
The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1557; borrowed from Latin mātrīculātus, perfect passive participle of mātrīculō (“to register”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from mātrīcula (“public register”), a diminutive of Latin mātrīx (“list”).
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