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Alumna   /əlˈəmnə/   Listen
Alumna

noun
(pl. alumnae)
1.
A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).  Synonyms: alum, alumnus, grad, graduate.






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"Alumna" Quotes from Famous Books



... ("Some Disorders of Menstruation," American Journal of Obstetrics, April, 1896), after giving cases in point, wrote: "It is my deliberate conviction that no girl should be confined at study during the year of her puberty, but she should live an outdoor life." In an article on "Alumna's Children," by "An Alumna" (Popular Science Monthly, May, 1904), dealing with the sexual invalidism of American women and the severe strain of motherhood upon them, the author, though she is by no means hostile to education, which is not, she declares, at fault, pleads for ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... evening the Cad girls gave a big reception in the Assembly Hall to an Academy alumna who was visiting the Greek professor's wife. It was the smartest event of the term and everybody was there—students and faculty and, of course, Sylvia Grant. Sylvia looked stunning. She was all in white, with a string of pearls about her pretty round throat and a couple of little ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... an alumna of that famous and select school for girls, Forsyte-on-the-Hudson, graduation from which places any Hamilton girl in the very inner circle of Hamilton society, Mrs. Selim has been closely identified with the school, having for the past two years ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin



Words linked to "Alumna" :   student, scholar, scholarly person, Ivy Leaguer, old boy, alumnus, graduate, bookman



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