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ALUMNA (alumnae)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alumna mean? 

ALUMNA (noun)
  The noun ALUMNA has 1 sense:

1. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)play

  Familiarity information: ALUMNA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALUMNA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate

Hypernyms ("alumna" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alumna"):

Ivy Leaguer (a student or graduate at an Ivy League school)

old boy (a former male pupil of a school)


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