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Definition of Alma mater
1. Noun. Your alma mater is a school you graduated from.
Definition of Alma mater
1. Noun. A school or college from which an individual has graduated or which they have attended. ¹
2. Noun. A school's anthem or song. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Alma mater
1. A college or seminary where one is educated. Origin: L, fostering mother. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alma Mater
Literary usage of Alma mater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Presidential Addresses and State Papers by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"The man who is content to go through life owing his alma mater for an education
for which he has made no adequate return is not true to the ideals of ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"alma mater. VERY man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical
career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university ..."
3. Loom and Spindle, Or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls: With a Sketch of "The by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1898)
"THE LITTLE MILL-GIRL'S alma mater. THE education of a child is an ... could not
have been mentally so well developed, I love to call it their alma mater. ..."
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