matriculate
verb🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪt/
🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they matriculate | 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪt/ 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪt/ |
| he / she / it matriculates | 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪts/ 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪts/ |
| past simple matriculated | 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪd/ 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle matriculated | 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪd/ 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form matriculating | 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/məˈtrɪkjuleɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (formal)
to officially become a student at a university （正式）被大学录取；注册入大学 - [intransitive] (South African English)
to successfully complete the final year of school （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.