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Alumna

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

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Alum 76% connected

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystal…

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Graduate 76% connected

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Academy noun · 78% connection

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

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Alumnus noun · 78% connection

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

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Boarder noun · 78% connection

a pupil who lives at school during term time

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Bound adjective · 78% connection

headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’; "children bound for…

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Cadet noun · 78% connection

A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woo…

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Campus noun · 78% connection

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

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Class noun · 78% connection

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

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Classmate noun · 78% connection

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

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Clinic noun · 78% connection

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in th…

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College noun · 78% connection

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter…

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Collegian noun · 78% connection

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

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Crammer noun · 78% connection

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

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Dame noun · 78% connection

The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

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Destined adjective · 78% connection

headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’; "children bound for…

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Doe noun · 78% connection

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

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Dormitory noun · 78% connection

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one…

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Education noun · 78% connection

the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

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Faculty noun · 78% connection

The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the…

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