Meaning of alumnuses | Babel Free
Definitions
Noun. [B2]
Examples
“2 No more for us yon tuneful bell shall ring⟳ for morning prayers, / No more to long Biennial we’ll mount⟳ you attic stairs; / Our recitations all are passed—Alumnuses you know⟳, / We’ll swell the praises long and loud of Alma Mater O— / Oh! Alma Mater O, &c.”
“This gentleman, whom you will immediately recognize as one of our oldest Alumnuses, is Mr. A. Squirrel who will accept⟳ a peanut from a Columbia professor of higher mathematics as quickly as he will from a Freshman, which shows that he gets along pretty well as far as being a squirrel goes, but hasn’t much sense⟳ otherwise.”
“BEHOLD—ye oldest and most faithfulest of the alumnuses.”
“Prototypical rehabilitation equipment produced by alumnuses of Technical School for Workers at Bielsko-Biała”
“And if he accepts any favors, large or small, from “overzealous alumnuses,” he runs the risk⟳ of seeing his school put⟳ on probation, receiving sanctions, or even getting the “death penalty,” which means no football program⟳ for two years—that thing SMU received in 1987.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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