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‖ summa cum laude, advb. phr. (a. and n.) Chiefly U.S.|ˈsʌmə kʌm ˈlɔːdiː, ˈsʊmə kʊm ˈlaʊdiː, -eɪ|
[L., ‘with highest praise’.]
With highest distinction: designating a degree, diploma, etc., of the highest standard. Also transf. and fig. Occas. ellipt. as summa. Cf. magna cum laude.
1900[see magna cum laude]. 1951S. F. Nadel Found. Social Anthropol. i. 18 You may be said to have accomplished assimilation summa cum laude. 1962Listener 16 Aug. 242/1 He was psychoanalyzed..presumably by what Buddy calls one of those ‘summa-cum-laude thinkers and intellectual men's-room attendants’. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 295 Mrs Friedan is a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College. 1976N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 June 4/2 When Commencement Day arrived, Mrs. Plath..[came] to watch her daughter being awarded her summa cum laude certificate. 1976Time 20 Dec. 18/2 James R. Schlesinger..summa cum laude and Ph.D in economics at Harvard. 1977New Yorker 19 Sept. 47/3 She had just graduated summa cum laude from the University of Washington, in Seattle. 1978F. Maclean Take Nine Spies iv. 132 At Hamburg Sorge had taken his doctor's degree in political science summa cum laude. 1980M. Babson Dangerous to Know vi. 40 An interview with one of the graduates, summa cum laude, of the Fat Farm. 1980Sci. Amer. Aug. 35/1 He left Harvard three years later with a most irregular but steadily brilliant record, graduating in three years with an A.B. summa in chemistry. |