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Definition of College boy
1. Noun. A student (or former student) at a college or university.
Specialized synonyms: College Student, University Student, Grad Student, Graduate Student, Postgraduate, Undergrad, Undergraduate
Generic synonyms: Educatee, Pupil, Student
Lexicographical Neighbors of College Boy
Literary usage of College boy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"His companions absorb from the college boy's atmosphere that which, makes them
want to develop their own resources and possibilities. ..."
2. College and Commonwealth: And Other Educational Papers and Addresses by John Henry MacCracken (1920)
"This is the great question which religion and religious instruction must answer
for the college boy. Huxley, high moralist that he was, took the pessimistic ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"The result was, of course, the discomfiture and punishment of the ringleaders ;
twelve college-boy.«, most of them prefects, were expelled, ..."
4. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Birdseye, Clarence F., 1854-1927 (1907)
"... handicapping the college boy students for because they do away with the ...
wisely, the secondary schools decidedly favor the non-college boy or girl, ..."
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