Abiturient – English noun declension

English noun forms of Abiturient

Noun: Abiturient
SingularAbiturient
PluralAbiturienten; Abiturients

Sample Sentences

  • If we examine the statistics of the German Gymnasia, we shall find that an Abiturient very rarely leaves a Gymnasium so young as eighteen, [...] [1875, The Southern Review, volume 16, number 33, page 195:]
  • He is already an Abiturient, a graduate of a gymnasium, one who has completed enough preparatory studies to turn directly, if need be, to professional work, [...] [1900, Elbert Francis Baldwin, The Educational Value of the Social Side of Student Life, III, In Germany, in The Outlook, page 804:]
  • (3) an Abiturient, minimum age 19, needs a practical course of ½ year and 2-2½ years at Chemieschule (day classes). An Abiturient is a student who has passed the matriculation examination after 9 years (8 in Austria) at secondary school. [1958, Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, volume 82, page 528:]
  • Well, obviously a bright kid, but: When he got his Abitur (final exam at the Gymnasium), he had already the German equivalent of a 2-year US college education behind him. Nobody in his/her right mind would compare a US high-school graduate with an Abiturient. There is a two-year difference. The US public school system goes for only 12 years, and starts one year earlier than the German one. [2000 February 22, Peter Alfke, “German Education”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):]

Nouns inflected like Abiturient

Abiturient, Keeshond, keeshond, Frau, Gesellschaft,

Etymology

Borrowed from German Abiturient, from Latin abituriō (“to wish to leave”). See: German Nouns 'Abiturient', Latin Nouns 'abituriō'.