undergraduates
- 1Plural of undergraduate.
Most of the undergraduates in the seminar were studying biology or chemistry.
The university enrolls roughly twelve thousand undergraduates each year.
Note
A regular plural, formed by adding -s, and it belongs only to the noun. The singular spelling also works as an adjective (undergraduate courses, an undergraduate degree), and that adjective never takes the plural ending: write undergraduate students, not undergraduates students. When the word stands on its own as a noun, the -s is needed: most undergraduates live on campus.
undergraduates is a form of undergraduate
undergraduate, noun: Someone enrolled at a college or university who is studying for, but has not yet earned, a bachelor's or comparable first degree. Full entry
- Forms
- undergraduateundergraduates plural
- Spelling
- undergraduate → undergraduates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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