Definition of Phi Beta Kappa in English:
Phi Beta Kappa
noun ˌfʌɪ ˌbiːtə ˈkapəˌfaɪ ˌbeɪdə ˈkæpə
1(in the US) an honorary society of undergraduates and some graduates to which members are elected on the basis of high academic achievement.
Example sentencesExamples
- She earned her B.S. degree in 1937 at the University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Scholarship Award for Outstanding Senior in Geology.
- Carson is a Rhodes Scholar with a goody-two-shoes image - Phi Beta Kappa, White House fellow, Legal Services Award winner, etc.
- He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University with a degree in economics after spending his junior year at The London School of Economics and Political Science as a Luard Scholar.
- We are not told how many African American students ranked in the top quarter or the top tenth of their classes, graduated with honors, or made Phi Beta Kappa.
- After a stint at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, he transferred to Columbia and graduated magna cum laude, with election to Phi Beta Kappa.
- 1.1 A member of a Phi Beta Kappa society.
Example sentencesExamples
- She is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College.
- She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan where she won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in American history and economics.
Origin
From the initial letters of a Greek motto philosophia biou kubernētēs 'philosophy is the guide to life'.
Definition of Phi Beta Kappa in US English:
Phi Beta Kappa
nounˌfaɪ ˌbeɪdə ˈkæpəˌfī ˌbādə ˈkapə
1An honorary society of college and university undergraduates and some graduates to which members are elected on the basis of high academic achievement.
Example sentencesExamples
- Carson is a Rhodes Scholar with a goody-two-shoes image - Phi Beta Kappa, White House fellow, Legal Services Award winner, etc.
- After a stint at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, he transferred to Columbia and graduated magna cum laude, with election to Phi Beta Kappa.
- She earned her B.S. degree in 1937 at the University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Scholarship Award for Outstanding Senior in Geology.
- We are not told how many African American students ranked in the top quarter or the top tenth of their classes, graduated with honors, or made Phi Beta Kappa.
- He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University with a degree in economics after spending his junior year at The London School of Economics and Political Science as a Luard Scholar.
- 1.1 A member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Example sentencesExamples
- She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan where she won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in American history and economics.
- She is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College.
Origin
From the initial letters of a Greek motto philosophia biou kubernētēs ‘philosophy is the guide to life’.