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alumni
[uh-luhm-nahy]
Example Sentences
However, with the 10th season of “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars” airing now, some critics are noticing that "Drag Race" alumni aren't as profitable as they used to be.
More than 34,500 alumni and current senior academic and professional staff have registered to vote online, which will take place between 9 and 18 July.
Famous alumni include England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who was in the crowd to watch his hometown club win promotion.
For alumni, the destruction of the field is disturbing.
“These seniors have been through so much,” says John Muir principal Lawton Gray, an alumni of the school who was also temporarily displaced by the wildfire.
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When To Use
Alumni is the plural form of the singular noun alumnus. The plurals of several other words ending in -us are also formed in this way, such as fungus/fungi and cactus/cacti. Irregular plurals that are formed like alumni derive directly from their original pluralization in Latin. Specifically, alumnus is the masculine singular form in Latin and alumni is the masculine plural form. The feminine singular form in Latin is alumna and the feminine plural form is alumnae. Sometimes, this distinction is carried over into English. However, alumnus and alumni are both commonly used in a gender-neutral way in English.Alumni is sometimes treated as a singular noun. However, this is not considered valid in standard English, and alumni should be treated as a plural form.
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