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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
undergraduate
/ˌʌndəˈɡrædjuːət/
noun
a college student who is working toward his or her first degree
- “Postgraduate research is much more demanding than research at undergraduate level.”Tatoeba
- “He is an undergraduate in the law department.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))