Alumni, the Glossary
Alumni (alumnus or alumna) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university.[1]
Table of Contents
38 relations: A & C Black, Adjective, Alma mater, Alum, Alumni association, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Alumni Oxonienses, Beryl Rawson, British English, Burt Reynolds, Class reunion, Classical Latin, Collins English Dictionary, Digest (Roman law), Ecclesiastical Latin, Florida State University, Fosterage, Fundraising, Graduation, Harvard University, Henri Leclercq, Infant exposure, John Boswell, Latin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Men's college, Noun, Old Boys, Postdoctoral researcher, Roman law, Romance languages, Traditional English pronunciation of Latin, United States Department of Education, University of California, San Francisco, University of Cambridge, Verb, Women's college, Yale University.
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A & C Black
A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Alma mater
Alma mater (almae matres) is an allegorical Latin phrase used to proclaim a school that a person has attended or, more usually, from which one has graduated. Alumni and Alma mater are academic terminology.
Alum
An alum is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula, such that is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium.
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Alumni association
An alumni association or alumnae association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students (alumni).
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Alumni Cantabrigienses
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is a biographical register of former members of the University of Cambridge which was edited by the mathematician John Venn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) and published by Cambridge University Press in ten volumes between 1922 and 1953.
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Alumni Oxonienses
Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford is a biographical reference work by Joseph Foster (1844–1905), published by Oxford University Press, listing the alumni of the University of Oxford.
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Beryl Rawson
Beryl Rawson (née Wilkinson; 24 July 1933 – 22 October 2010) was an Australian academic.
British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor and icon of 1970s American popular culture.
Class reunion
A class reunion is a meeting of former classmates, often organized at or near their former high school or college, by one or more class members.
Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Digest (Roman law)
The Digest (Digesta), also known as the Pandects (Pandectae; Πανδέκται, Pandéktai, "All-Containing"), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 530–533 AD.
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Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church.
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Florida State University
Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
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Fosterage
Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents.
Fundraising
Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.
Graduation
A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henri Leclercq
Henri Leclercq (4 December 1869 – 23 March 1945) was a French Catholic priest, theologian, and church historian who spent most of his adult life in the United Kingdom.
Infant exposure
In ancient times, exposition (from the Latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, hunger, animal attackJustin Martyr, First Apology. or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce children.
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John Boswell
John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947December 24, 1994) was an American historian and a full professor at Yale University.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Men's college
In higher education, a men's college is an undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institution whose students are exclusively men.
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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Old Boys
The terms Old Boys and Old Girls are the usual expressions in use in the United Kingdom for former pupils of primary and secondary schools.
Postdoctoral researcher
A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD).
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Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced by speakers of English until the early 20th century.
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United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.
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University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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Women's college
Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
Alumni by educational institution
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumni
Also known as Allumni, Alumn, Alumna, Alumnae, Alumnus, Alumnus/a, Ex-student, Old Member, Old student.