Definition of "summa cum laude" []

• With the greatest honor. Used to express the highest academic distinction: graduated summa cum laude; a summa cum laude graduate. (adverb)

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• "The clerk who was assigned to me had graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, but the young woman looked as if she were summa cum laude from RNU Revenge of the Nerds University."
• "True, they hadn't entered their respective fields with the idea of getting rich, but neither had they expected that a summa cum laude would take them about as far from campus as the nearest dry water hole."