🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

장학생

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jang-hak-saeng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Colleger/ˈkɒl.ɪ.dʒər/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 장학생은 기숙사에 머물렀습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A student on the foundation at Eton College who resides within the historic college buildings.

    "As a Colleger, he wore a traditional black academic gown over his school uniform."
  2. 2

    An inhabitant or member of a college; a college student.

    "The older texts referred to every resident undergraduate simply as a colleger."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'college' with the agent suffix '-er', originating in British English, particularly associated with historic public schools like Eton College. Historically, it refers specifically to a foundation scholar living in the college as opposed to an 'oppidan' (day boy or non-foundation student). Over time, it has also occasionally seen informal usage to denote a student attending a college.

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