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alumnus

noun
🔊/əˈlʌmnəs/
🔊/əˈlʌmnəs/
(plural alumni
🔊/əˈlʌmnaɪ/
🔊/əˈlʌmnaɪ/
)
(especially North American English, formal)
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  1. a former male student of a school, college or university男校友；男毕业生Topics Educationc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAlumnus is used before these nouns:
    • reunion
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘nursling, pupil’, from alere ‘nourish’.