Definition of Matriculate

1. Noun. Someone who has been admitted to a college or university.


2. Verb. Enroll as a student.
Generic synonyms: Enrol, Enroll, Enter, Inscribe, Recruit
Derivative terms: Matriculation

Definition of Matriculate

1. v. t. To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.

2. v. i. To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.

3. a. Matriculated.

Definition of Matriculate

1. Verb. (transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Matriculate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Matriculate

matricentred
matricentric
matrices
matricial
matricidal
matricide
matricides
matriclan
matriclans
matriclinous
matrics
matriculand
matriculands
matriculant
matriculants
matriculate (current term)
matriculated
matriculates
matriculating
matriculation
matriculations
matriculator
matriculators
matrifocal
matrifocality
matrikin
matrilateral
matrilineage
matrilineal

Literary usage of Matriculate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seventy-five Years in Old Virginia: With Some Account of the Life of the by John Herbert Claiborne (1904)
"... Randolph-Macon—I matriculate at University of Virginia—To Philadelphia Where I Take Diplomas from Jefferson Medical College, the Pennsylvania Hospital, ..."

2. "The Kentuckian" by Isaac Marshall Page (1906)
"... matriculate in the great University, the world. May they be attended by every possible success and pass all the examinations of their chosen curriculum. ..."

3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1861)
"Is it fair that we who matriculate i under the old system predicament than it was before. The Examiners allege as an ..."

4. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"J. slaughter of a mother matriculate, mJ-tr'k'u-Ute. ra to enter or admit to a membership of the universities Matriculation, ..."

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