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
- She matriculated in 1995.
- [intransitive] (South African English) to successfully complete the final year of schoolTopics Educationc2
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin matriculat- ‘enrolled’, from the verb matriculare, from late Latin matricula ‘register’, diminutive of Latin matrix.