Definition of "matriculant" []

• One who matriculates or is a candidate for matriculation. (noun)

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• "Given that so many young fiction-writers and poets begin writing in high school, this polling suggests that the average MFA matriculant has likely been writing for a decade or more."
• "Nowadays the blase 18-year-old matriculant is already conferring with an advisor about his or her study-abroad year in Istanbul by the end of fall quarter in the freshman year."
• "A simply classic Kill Face with expertly flared nostrils and key lighting creating the illusion of bat wings for this bloodsucking matriculant."