matriculate
(noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university
matriculate
(verb) enroll as a student
Source: WordNet® 3.1
matriculate (third-person singular simple present matriculates, present participle matriculating, simple past and past participle matriculated)
(transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university
(intransitive) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
matriculate (plural matriculates)
A person admitted to membership in a society.
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*tric"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matriculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Matriculating.] Etym: [L. matricula a public roll or register, dim. of matrix a mother, in respect to propagation, also, a public register. See Matrix.]
Definition: To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.
Ma*tric"u*late, v. i.
Definition: To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
Ma*tric"u*late, a.
Definition: Matriculated. Skelton.
– n.
Definition: One who is matriculated. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
