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Meaning of passman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. One who passes a university degree, but without honours.
    British, archaic
  2. A surname originating as an occupation for a seller or grower of peas.

Examples

“As one reads history—not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time—one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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