matriculation

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˌtrɪkjʊˈleɪʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˌtrɪkjəˈleɪʃən/

Noun

matriculation (countable and uncountable, plural matriculations)

1. Enrollment in a college or university.
2. A pass in some university examinations.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60:

     It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.

3. (Scotland) A registration of armorial bearings.

Related terms

• alma mater
• matriculant
• matriculate
• matrix

 

Translations

enrollment in a college or university

• Czech: imatrikulace (cs) f
• Dutch: inschrijving (nl)
• Finnish: yliopistoon kirjoittautuminen
• French: inscription (fr) f
• German: Immatrikulation (de) f, Einschreibung (de) f
• Hungarian: felsőoktatási/egyetemi/főiskolai felvételi/beiratkozás
• Icelandic: innritun f
• Malay: matrikulasi (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: immatrikulering f

  Nynorsk: immatrikulering f

• Occitan: inscripcion (oc) f
• Portuguese: matrícula (pt) f (not specific to colleges and universities)
• Romanian: înmatriculare (ro)

a pass in some university examinations

• Dutch: toelatingsexamen (nl)
• Finnish: pääsykoe (fi)
• French: examen d’admission m
• Hebrew: בגרות (he)

a registration of armorial bearings

References

• OED 2004