matriculate
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they matriculate | |
he / she / it matriculates | |
past simple matriculated | |
past participle matriculated | |
-ing form matriculating |
- [intransitive] (formal)
to officially become a student at a university Topics Educationc2(正式)被大学录取;注册入大学 - [intransitive] (South African English)
to successfully complete the final year of school Topics Educationc2(从学校)毕业
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin matriculat- ‘enrolled’, from the verb matriculare, from late Latin matricula ‘register’, diminutive of Latin matrix.