Definition of "matriculate" [ma•tric•u•late]

• To admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university. (verb-transitive)
• One who is admitted as a student to a college or university. (noun)

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• "In the early '80s Adani, a matriculate from a Gujarati-medium school, went to Mumbai where he started working in a diamond-processing unit and steadily made his way up, eventually running his own businesses."
• "However, that's starting to change as more mature titles matriculate to the Wii."
• ""matriculate" -- leading him from one to another of the professors, who awed the lad with their preternatural dignity, but it was a sad blow when he was told that in everything but mathematics he must go to the preparatory department until the second session of the term -- the"