Other forms: undergraduates
An undergraduate is a student working toward a first degree. An undergraduate course, undergraduate students, as an undergraduate.
It is shortened to undergrad in speech. The word marks the stage rather than the age, which matters now that so many students are not eighteen. A postgraduate has already got a first degree. Note that graduate here means somebody who has taken a degree, from the Latin for a step.
1nounundergraduateA student working toward a first degree.
“She's an undergraduate studying history, and she hopes to do a master's afterwards.”
undergraduate is a student.
Also accepted in games: undergrad
Medieval Latin
graduātus — graduated, graduate
English
graduate
English, today
undergraduate
Built from
From under- + graduate. graduate comes from Middle English graduat (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate), from gradus (“step”) + -ō. The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate. Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a 卒業.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA